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From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez - Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship (Paperback)
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From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez - Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship (Paperback)
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During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political
dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were
also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western
intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included
Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel
Castro and more recently Hugo Chavez, among others. This book seeks
to understand the sources of these misjudgements and
misperceptions, the specific appeals of particular dictators, and
the part played by their charisma, or pseudo-charisma. It sheds new
light not only on the political disposition of numerous Western
intellectuals - such as Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm, Norman
Mailer, Ezra Pound, Susan Sontag and George Bernard Shaw - but also
on the personality of those political leaders who encouraged, and
in some instances helped to design, the cult surrounding their rise
to dictatorship.
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