We are delighted to announce that Timothy Snyder’s latest book is now available in our Library, inviting you to explore new perspectives and deepen your understanding of the world.
On Freedom / Timothy Snyder. New York : Crown, 2025. xx, 355 pages ; 21 cm. ISBN 9798217088768
[Call No. 46829 / Books-Main Collection]
“A rigorous and visionary argument, and one deeply rooted in Snyder’s own biography—he begins with his memories of ringing the family Liberty Bell on his Ohio farm, as a ten-year-old on Independence Day. He has subsequently done nearly all of his thinking about these ideas not on a screen but in interactions with those who feel the presence and absence of freedom most keenly: from Ukrainian pensioners caught up in never-ending conflict to the inmates of a high-security prison, where he teaches a course on liberation. . . . Buy or borrow this book, read it, take it to heart.”
— The Guardian
“Timothy Snyder is one of our most original and perceptive thinkers, on the history of Europe, on American politics, and now, on freedom. Everyone who cares about freedom—what it means and what it takes to preserve it—should read this book.”
— Anne Applebaum
“In these hard times for liberty, On Freedom offers a deep inquiry arising from a diversity of perspectives. . . . We are all fortunate that Timothy Snyder has shown us the way.”
— President Volodymyr Zelensky
“Stimulating . . . With all his deep absorption in Eastern Europe, Snyder has no illusions about the dilemma of freedom in his own country. Apart from his work as a professor, he teaches prisoners, which gives him a keener appreciation of the unique horrors of American mass incarceration.”
— The New York Times
“[A] timely manifesto for our fearful age . . . Snyder knows how precious and fragile freedom is because he has studied and, in Ukraine, even seen what happens to people when brutes take it away. . . . His knowledge of tyranny is invaluable in analyzing freedom. But Snyder’s book goes well beyond history. . . . [which] makes On Freedom intellectually rich, yet personal.”
— Financial Times