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   Covering a century of tyranny, this book examines how authoritarians use propaganda, virility, corruption, and violence to stay in power, and how they can be opposed. “Ruth Ben-Ghiat delivers a superb examination of how close the US came to fascism – and how it has propped it up before…”.

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

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Her new book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, elaborates on that position in a full-length survey of the ways ambitious strongmen can damage or destroy democratic regimes. The...

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

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   Nov 10, 2020 · Trump made his authoritarian instincts clear by refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the 2020 election. Ruth Ben-Ghiat contributes to this literature in a...

4. www.goodreads.com › book › showStrongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall

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   Nov 10, 2020 · Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat draws on analysis of everything from gender to corruption and propaganda to explain who these political figures are - and how they manipulate our own history, fears and desires in search of power at any cost.

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   Sep 23, 2020 · Ben-Ghiat argues that strongmen leaders rely upon a combination of propaganda, violence, corruption, and virility to acquire and retain power. Some of that may be obvious, but she assigns more weight to corruption and virility than most analysts.

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   Nov 5, 2020 · Strongmen is a fierce and perceptive history, and a vital step in understanding how to combat the forces which seek to derail democracy and seize our rights.

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   Is strongmen a good book?

   • Strongmen is “a gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption.” Daniel Ziblatt “Everyone who cares about American democracy should read this book.” Sarah Kendzior

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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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   What factors brought the strongmen to power?

   • The strongmen came to power due to their ability to project a charismatic image, an uncanny sense of how to appeal to their followers’ basest instincts, and a willingness to embrace the other elements of the playbook. These techniques were as important as the men themselves.

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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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   Is the strongman a modern political type?

   • The strongman, according to Ben-Ghiat, follows a similar "playbook" for seizing and holding power, despite the varying societies in which they emerged. She insists that the strongman is a modern political type. 'Ours is the age of the strongman', she states categorically.

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   Why did strongmen come to power in the 1960s and '70s?

   • Ben-Ghiat notes that many strongmen came to power in the 1960s and ’70s through military coups, but that today they are much more likely to be elected. Wouldn’t it be nice to know why coups have largely vanished?

   Book Review: ‘Strongmen,’ by Ruth Ben-Ghiat - The New York Times

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   Nov 5, 2020 · Ruth Ben-Ghiat covers a century of authoritarianism to explain why strongman rulers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing from a common playbook of machismo, propaganda, violence, and...