Vastly important, deeply affecting, powerful, magnificent

A more concise, profound, or essential book on the subject does not exist

On Tyranny is a must read, a clear-eyed guidebook... a manual for how to protect and preserve Democracy

Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the 20th century

Her colorful images here - some drawn and some collaged, including many historical photos and artifacts - add a new layer of complexity, and make the search for understanding in images of the past part of the story

One of the most important books of our time... This book should be read and experienced by everyone, its lessons carved into our hearts

Krug's illustrated edition of On Tyranny is more than an instant classic. It is an act of resistance - and a gift of love

A chilling description of how authoritarian mindsets work

Stanley shows us Edo's back alleys, offering a portrait of a city just before its cultural life was flooded with western influences, and it transformed into the Tokyo of today.

Absorbing...A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy.

Stranger in the Shogun's City is as close to a novel as responsible history can be...What makes the book so captivating are not merely Tsuneno's stubborn attempts at self-determination, but also Stanley's enviable ability to make us feel as if we lived in 19th-century Edo with her.

A fascinating exploration of one woman's life in 19th-century Japan... Stanley paints a vivid picture of life in noisy, crowded Edo

A portrait of an era as much as of a woman

An extraordinary woman at an extraordinary time, Tsuneno's life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture - and a rare view of a woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, despite social convention

A fascinating portrait of the shogunate dictatorship

Amy Stanley digs into the archive to uncover the life of one 19th-century Japanese woman. But Tsuneno, the daughter of a temple priest, was no ordinary woman: she married four times, had no children and fled to the big city of Edo. This is a portrait of an era as much as of a woman

Tsuneno's Edo was a place to make a new beginning - but it was also dangerous, alienating to outsiders and a source of disease. Stanley describes backstreet tenements, pawn shops and pedlars, famines and rice riot . . . Like a Dickens character, she was carried on the uncertain currents of urban life into the company of both the lofty and the lowly

In A Stranger in the Shogun's City, Amy Stanley takes readers on an immersive and revelatory journey through 19th-century Japan

As reportage, it's as immersive as you could wish for. It's also hilarious and humbling