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Big Caesars and Little Caesars
- How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
Engelsk Paperback
Big Caesars and Little Caesars
- How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
Engelsk Paperback

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''Wry, informative but deadly – a great book''
Will Hutton

''Fast-paced and impassioned''
Sunday Telegraph

Who 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.













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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781399409728
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1399409727
Udg. Dato:
6 jun 2024
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
6 jun 2024
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