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• Page: 304
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• ISBN: 9781399409728
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

'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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    Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.
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    Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.
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    Julius Caesar, we remember, flattered the Senate then broke into the Treasury. And, pace Plato, they cultivated the art of the noble lie.
    BIG CAESARS AND LITTLE CAESARS: How They Rise
    Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. Illus. Format: Hardbound Pages: 304. Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How
    There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without 
    Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How
    Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.
    Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How
    Mount provides lively historical accounts ranging from the original Caesar seizing power in Rome to Hitler grabbing Germany.
    Big Caesars and Little Caesars
    Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.