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Big Caesars and Little Caesars

How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

2024 || Paperback || Ferdinand Mount || Bloomsbury Publishing

'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'

Will Hutton

'Fast-paced and impassioned'

Sunday Telegraph

Who 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 ...