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Oct 6, 2020 · From the bestselling author of the Don’t Know Much About® books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritarianism, and the reigns of five of history's deadliest dictators. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year!
Jan 8, 2021 · This book aims to provide a historical perspective for understanding the wave of authoritarianism that has been sweeping the world in the early twenty-first century. ‘Ours is the age of the strongm...
- Nicola D’Elia
- 2021
Dec 31, 2021 · New authoritarians need to gauge the tolerance of elites and the public for violence. 21st-century strongmen like Putin and Recep Erdogan tend to warehouse their enemies out of public scrutiny, preferring targeted violence, information manipulation and legal harassment to neutralize dissenters.
Apr 7, 2022 · In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics.
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- Hardcover
Nov 18, 2020 · Ben-Ghiat takes a measured, scholarly, historic approach to strongmen in the second half of the twentieth century and first twenty years of this century. She addresses leaders from around the world, dividing them into these categories: the fascists, the coup leaders, and the new authoritarians.
Apr 6, 2021 · Explaining why the playbook succeeded in some places and failed in others is a matter of more than merely pointing to the greater or lesser moral and institutional strength of...
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Nov 10, 2020 · STRONGMEN. Mussolini to the Present. By Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Ever since the 2016 election, observers like Timothy Snyder, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt speculated that Donald Trump could...