On Tyranny Author : Timothy Snyder Publisher : Crown Total Pages : 128 Release : 2017-02-28 ISBN 10 : 9780804190121 ISBN 13 : 0804190127 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK On Tyranny Book Description: #1 New York Times Bestseller • A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. "Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present." —The New York Times
Tyranny s Ally Author : David Wurmser Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Total Pages : 167 Release : 1999 ISBN 10 : 0844740748 ISBN 13 : 9780844740744 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Tyranny s Ally Book Description: This book argues that current policy, even if invigorated by more aggressive military efforts, will not bring the United States victory over Saddam and his regime.
On Tyranny Graphic Edition Author : Timothy Snyder Publisher : Ten Speed Press Total Pages : 128 Release : 2021-10-05 ISBN 10 : 9781984859167 ISBN 13 : 1984859161 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK On Tyranny Graphic Edition Book Description: Note: The ebook of this graphic edition combines a hand-lettered font with richly detailed images. Due to the nature of the design, readers will be required to zoom in on each page. For the best experience, please use a larger, full-color screen. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug “Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future.”—Shepard Fairey, artist and activist Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4: Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent (“11: Investigate”), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clichéd phrases for the sake of mass appeal (“9: Be kind to our language”), and more. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging—at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories—to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder’s riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.
The Tyranny of Gun Control Author : Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger Publisher : The Future of Freedom Foundation Total Pages : 107 Release : 1997-01-01 ISBN 10 : 9781890687052 ISBN 13 : 1890687057 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK The Tyranny of Gun Control Book Description: The right to own firearms is one of the most fundamental, inherent rights of man. Not only do individuals have the natural, God-given right to own property, they also have the basic right to defend themselves from murderers, rapists, thieves, burglars, and other violent, antisocial people in society. Most important, individuals have the right to defend themselves from the oppressive, tyrannical acts of their own government. This book shows why gun control poses an enormous threat to the liberty of the American people. It is a must read for anyone concerned about the future direction of freedom in the United States.
Jerubbaal or Tyranny s grove destroyed and the altar of liberty finished A discourse on Judges viii 34 35 on America s duty and danger delivered 1783 on occasion of the public thanksgiving for peace Author : John MURRAY (Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Newbury Port.) Publisher : Total Pages : 75 Release : 1784 ISBN 10 : BL:A0018783318 ISBN 13 : Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Jerubbaal or Tyranny s grove destroyed and the altar of liberty finished A discourse on Judges viii 34 35 on America s duty and danger delivered 1783 on occasion of the public thanksgiving for peace Book Description:
Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective Author : Richard Bourke Publisher : Cambridge University Press Total Pages : Release : 2016-03-24 ISBN 10 : 9781316453919 ISBN 13 : 131645391X Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective Book Description: This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. This study, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, traces successive transformations of the doctrine, rather than narrating a linear development. It examines critical moments in the career of popular sovereignty, spanning antiquity, medieval Europe, the early modern wars of religion, the revolutions of the eighteenth century and their aftermath, decolonisation and mass democracy. Featuring original work by an international team of scholars, the book offers a reconsideration of one of the formative principles of contemporary politics by exploring its descent from classical city-states to the advent of the modern state.
Overcoming Opposition Author : Philip Lesly Publisher : Prentice Hall Total Pages : 212 Release : 1984 ISBN 10 : IND:39000008170115 ISBN 13 : Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Overcoming Opposition Book Description:
Legitimacy Without Illusions Author : Arthur Isak Applbaum Publisher : Total Pages : 240 Release : 2019 ISBN 10 : 9780674983465 ISBN 13 : 0674983467 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Legitimacy Without Illusions Book Description: What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.
Depending on Strangers Author : David P. Levine Publisher : ISD LLC Total Pages : 192 Release : 2021-01-31 ISBN 10 : 9781800130333 ISBN 13 : 1800130333 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Depending on Strangers Book Description: In this book, David Levine explores the unknown self. The unknown self is the self existing as a potential to become something yet to be determined. The shape our personalities and life experiences take depends on a process. At the outset of this process, the self is, in a sense, a stranger; both to us and to others. The more this is the case, the greater the openness of the process of self-formation to a kind of freedom, which is the freedom from predetermination of its outcome. In exploring this process, the book considers such topics as: the nature of inner freedom and its relationship to deliberation and choice; stranger anxiety and its connection to group dynamics and social connection; the internal factors that enable us to make the decisions that shape our lives and through our actions realise the ends embedded in our decisions; how our memories shape our choices and the lives we lead that result from them; what makes it possible for us to live comfortably with and depend on people we do not know; concern for the welfare of strangers and how our welfare can be secure in a world where others do not care about us or us about them.
Political Thinkers Author : David Boucher Publisher : Oxford University Press Total Pages : 712 Release : 2017-05-04 ISBN 10 : 9780198708926 ISBN 13 : 0198708920 Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL GET BOOK Political Thinkers Book Description: Political Thinkers is the most comprehensive introduction to Western political thought written by a team of internationally renowned scholars. The third edition provides students with a clear and engaging introduction to the canon of great theorists, from Socrates and the Sophists to contemporary thinkers such as Rawls and Arendt. Each chapter begins with a helpful chapter guide, a biographical sketch of the thinker, a list of their key texts, and their key ideas. Part introductions and a concluding chapter enable readers to understand the social and political contexts that inspired political thinkers to write. The third edition features two brand new chapters on Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and Hugo Grotius, whose work on just war continues to inform international law today.