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7435262Big Caesars and Little Caesarshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/big-caesars-and-little-caesars-9781399409704/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7031397/image.jpg?v=638793219800130000297412MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Audiolibros/<p>Bloomsbury presents Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount, read by Paul Blezard.</p><p>A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR</p><p>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 its become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.</p><p>"Fast paced and impassioned" Sunday Telegraph</p><p>"Wonderfully wry" The Guardian</p><p>"...a delight" Sunday Times</p><p>"Delicious work, beautifully and acerbically written" Wall Street Journal</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 authors narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon.</p><p>The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trumps 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 and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government.</p>...7064574Big Caesars and Little Caesars297412https://www.gandhi.com.mx/big-caesars-and-little-caesars-9781399409704/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7031397/image.jpg?v=638793219800130000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20239781399409704_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9781399409704_<p>Bloomsbury presents Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount, read by Paul Blezard.</p><p>A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR</p><p>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 its become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.</p><p>"Fast paced and impassioned" Sunday Telegraph</p><p>"Wonderfully wry" The Guardian</p><p>"...a delight" Sunday Times</p><p>"Delicious work, beautifully and acerbically written" Wall Street Journal</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 authors narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon.</p><p>The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trumps 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 and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government.</p>...9781399409704_Bloomsbury Publishingaudiolibro_9781399409704_9781399409704Ferdinand MountInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2023-07-20T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing