Big Caesars and Little Caesars
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A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead?
The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators.
Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a
strangely neglected subject.Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating
exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.
",Fast paced and impassioned", -- Sunday Telegraph",Wonderfully
wry", -- The Guardian",...a delight", -- Sunday Times",Delicious
work, beautifully and acerbically written", -- Wall Street
JournalThere is a comforting illusion shared by historians and
political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and
Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards
liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality,
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. This 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 frequently crops up in this author's
narrative as 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 and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way
back to constitutional government.
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Bloomsbury Continuum ,
Ferdinand Mount
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Bloomsbury Continuum,
Ferdinand Mount
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