Big Caesars and Little Caesars

Ferdinand Mount


Engels | 10-09-2024 | 304 pagina's

9781399409728

Paperback / softback


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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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EAN :9781399409728
Auteur: 
Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Publicatie datum :  10-09-2024
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Hoogte :200 mm
Breedte :131 mm
Dikte :23 mm
Gewicht :254 gr
Status :Tijdelijk in herdruk
Aantal pagina's :304