{"product_id":"big-caesars-and-little-caesarsisbn-9781399409728","title":"Big Caesars and Little Caesars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wry, informative but deadly – a great book'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Hutton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fast-paced and impassioned'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seized power and why they fell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery 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. Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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 is a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Content Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46382824423653,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/big-caesars-and-little-caesarsisbn-9781399409728","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}