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Big Caesars and Little Caesars - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson (Hardcover)
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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 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. The book ends with
a thought-provoking road map of the way back to constitutional
government.
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