Big Caesars and Little Caesars | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781399409728 | Big Caesars and Little Caesars | Ferdinand Mount | Taschenbuch | 2024

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Beschreibung

'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'
Will Hutton

'Fast-paced and impassioned'Sunday TelegraphWho 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.

There 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.

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. Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.

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 is a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon.

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.

Über den Autor

Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and three grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'. His most recent titles for Bloomsbury Continuum include Big Caesars and Little Caesars, Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca and the novel Making Nice.

Zusammenfassung

The Boris Johnson material in this book will be a major selling point, whatever way his term of office comes to an end.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PROLOGUE
PART ONE
THE IDEA OF A CAESAR
1 Why is he there?
2 The Hero Worshipper
3 Augustus and Auguste - and Adolf
4 The Comforting Illusion
5 How it Starts
PART TWO
THE MAKING OF CAESARS
1 The Invention of Charisma
2 The Timing
3 The Prep
4 Being Lied to is Good for You
5 The Assault on Parliament
6 The Enemy at the Gates
PART THREE
THE UNMAKING OF CAESARS
1 Catiline on the Run
2 Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot (?)
3 The Dinner Party that Never Was
4 The Beer-Hall Putsch
5 Mrs Gandhi's Emergency
6 Donald Trump and the March on the Capitol
PART FOUR
THE SACREDEST PLACE

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	304 S.
ISBN-13:	9781399409728
ISBN-10:	1399409727
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	678737
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mount, Ferdinand
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury UK Bloomsbury Continuum
Abbildungen:	8 pages of in-text black and white illustrations
Maße:	196 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Ferdinand Mount
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.01.2025
Gewicht:	0,264 kg

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