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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, author.     Subjects     Dictators.     Dictatorship.     Authoritarianism.     Heads of state -- Africa.     Heads of state -- Europe.     Heads of state -- Latin America.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, author.       by title:      Strongmen : Mussolin...         MARC Display

Strongmen : Mussolini to the present / Ruth Ben-Ghiat. by Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, author. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020] Subjects Dictators.   Dictatorship.   Authoritarianism.   Heads of state -- Africa.   Heads of state -- Europe.   Heads of state -- Latin America. ISBN:  9781324001546 (hardcover) : 1324001542 (hardcover) : Description:  xviii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction -- Part 1. Getting to power. Fascist takeovers ; Military coups ; New authoritarian ascents -- Part 2. Tools of rule. A greater nation ; Propaganda ; Virility ; Corruption ; Violence -- Part 3. Losing power. Resistance ; Endings -- Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  "What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Their mutual-admiration club also draws on models from the past. Vladimir Putin rehabilitates Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump praises Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi, Jair Bolsonaro admires Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan invokes Adolf Hitler as the model of an efficient leader. Ruth Ben-Ghiat covers a century of authoritarianism to explain why strongman rulers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing from a common playbook of machismo, propaganda, violence, and corruption, have found popular support even as they bring ruin to their countries. The fruit of decades of research, Strongmen gives readers insight into how such rulers think, who and what they depend on, and how they can be opposed"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 321.90922 Be Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 321.90922 Be Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 321.90922 Be Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 321.90922 Be Checked out 05/24/2024 Add Copy to MyList Koloa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 321.90922 Be Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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