{"product_id":"big-caesars-and-little-caesars-how-they-rise-and-how-they-fall-from-julius-caesar-to-boris-johnson-paperback","title":"Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFerdinand Mount\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fast paced and impassioned\" -- Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wonderfully wry\" -- The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...a delight\" -- Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Delicious work, beautifully and acerbically written\" -- Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 author's narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump's 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFerdinand Mount\u003c\/b\u003e was Political Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e and Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. For two years he was head of Margaret Thatcher's think-tank - The Number 10 Policy Unit. He is an authority on politics today, and writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, \u003ci\u003eA Chronicle of Modern Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e, which began with \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Rode Ampersand\u003c\/i\u003e, based on his father's racing life, and included \u003ci\u003eOf Love And Asthma\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eKiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eMaking Nice\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Bloomsbury Continuum.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.72 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53574715605299,"sku":"9781399409728","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SPR0ij90u19781399409728.webp?v=1782768797","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/big-caesars-and-little-caesars-how-they-rise-and-how-they-fall-from-julius-caesar-to-boris-johnson-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}