Big Caesars and Little Caesars av Ferdinand Mount

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A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR<b>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.</b><b>"Fast paced and impassioned" -- Sunday Telegraph</b><b>"Wonderfully wry" -- The Guardian</b><b>"...a delight" -- Sunday Times</b><b>"Delicious work, beautifully and acerbically written" -- Wall Street Journal</b>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 a