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portada Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.45 kg.
ISBN13
9781399409728
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Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

Ferdinand Mount (Author) · Bloomsbury Continuum · Paperback

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Synopsis "Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson"

'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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