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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showStrongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy

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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!

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2. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullStrongmen: how they rise, why they succeed, how they fall

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   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...

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   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.

4. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Th…

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   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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5. thebibliophage.com › ruth-ben-ghiat-strongmen-bookRuth Ben-Ghiat on Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Book ...

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   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.

6. www.thenation.com › ruth-ben-ghiat-strongmenAre We Living in an Age of Strongmen? - The Nation

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   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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   Is strongman a good book?

   • Meticulously researched and complete with photographs, Strongman provides insight into the lives of five leaders who callously transformed the world and serves as an invaluable resource in an era when democracy itself seems in peril.* "A fascinating, highly readable portrayal of infamous men that provides urgent lessons for democracy now."

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   Where does a strongman derive his strength from?

   • According to Ben-Ghiat, the source of a strongman's strength lies elsewhere. In all of these cases, she contends, what also mattered, and perhaps what mattered most of all, was the way the strongmen managed to project a positive appeal to embittered and resentful sections of the population.

   Are We Living in an Age of Strongmen? | The Nation

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   Why is a strongman primarily in one another's company?

   • Strongmen are often set in one another’s company by their leaders to highlight their positive appeal and the power of their ability to exert influence, which seems to exist independently of any specific national, social, or economic context.

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   When did the new era of strongman leadership start?

   • While in the West the EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 mark a watershed, the new era started at the beginning of the new millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia. How and why did this new style of strongman leadership arrive? How likely is it to lead the world into war or economic collapse?

   The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Th…

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2020/11/10 › booksBook Review: ‘Strongmen,’ by Ruth Ben-Ghiat - The New York Times

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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...