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Will Hutton
'Fast-paced and impassioned'Sunday TelegraphWho 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.
Will Hutton
'Fast-paced and impassioned'Sunday TelegraphWho 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.
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
THE IDEA OF A CAESAR
1 Why is he there?
2 The Hero Worshipper
3 Augustus and Auguste - and Adolf
4 The Comforting Illusion
5 How it Starts
PART TWO
THE MAKING OF CAESARS
1 The Invention of Charisma
2 The Timing
3 The Prep
4 Being Lied to is Good for You
5 The Assault on Parliament
6 The Enemy at the Gates
PART THREE
THE UNMAKING OF CAESARS
1 Catiline on the Run
2 Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot (?)
3 The Dinner Party that Never Was
4 The Beer-Hall Putsch
5 Mrs Gandhi's Emergency
6 Donald Trump and the March on the Capitol
PART FOUR
THE SACREDEST PLACE
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 304 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781399409728 |
| ISBN-10: | 1399409727 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 678737 |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mount, Ferdinand |
| Hersteller: |
Bloomsbury UK
Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Abbildungen: | 8 pages of in-text black and white illustrations |
| Maße: | 196 x 128 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ferdinand Mount |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.01.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,264 kg |
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
THE IDEA OF A CAESAR
1 Why is he there?
2 The Hero Worshipper
3 Augustus and Auguste - and Adolf
4 The Comforting Illusion
5 How it Starts
PART TWO
THE MAKING OF CAESARS
1 The Invention of Charisma
2 The Timing
3 The Prep
4 Being Lied to is Good for You
5 The Assault on Parliament
6 The Enemy at the Gates
PART THREE
THE UNMAKING OF CAESARS
1 Catiline on the Run
2 Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot (?)
3 The Dinner Party that Never Was
4 The Beer-Hall Putsch
5 Mrs Gandhi's Emergency
6 Donald Trump and the March on the Capitol
PART FOUR
THE SACREDEST PLACE
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 304 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781399409728 |
| ISBN-10: | 1399409727 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 678737 |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mount, Ferdinand |
| Hersteller: |
Bloomsbury UK
Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Abbildungen: | 8 pages of in-text black and white illustrations |
| Maße: | 196 x 128 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ferdinand Mount |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.01.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,264 kg |
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