Big Caesars and Little Caesars How They Rise and How They Fa
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'Wry, informative but deadly – a great book''Will Hutton''Fast-paced and impassioned''sunday TelegraphWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A ...
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'Wry, informative but deadly – a great book''Will Hutton''Fast-paced and impassioned''sunday TelegraphWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seized power and why they fell.There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.Every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle and Trump. The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit is a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon.The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump''s march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics.
Detaljer
Forlag
Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN
9781399409728
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
304
Udgivelsesdato
06-06-2024
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3186161
EAN nr.
9781399409728
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
22
Bredde (mm)
197
Længde (mm)
129
Vægt (g)
252