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Big Caesars and little Caesars : how they rise and how they fall -- from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson / Ferdinand Mount. by Mount, Ferdinand, 1939- author. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2023. Subjects Heads of state.   Political leadership. ISBN:  9781399409711 (hardcover) : 1399409719 (hardcover) : Description:  304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Who 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. There 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, down to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. But this is also an age of Caesar-toppling. The final part of this scorching and irresistible enquiry describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief -- from the Catiline Conspiracy and the Gunpowder Plot to Trump's march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs -- and ends with a defen[s]e of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 303.34092 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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