{"product_id":"big-caesars-and-little-caesars-how-they-rise-and-how-they-fall-from-julius-caesar-to-boris-johnson-9781399409728","title":"Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Hutton \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fast-paced and impassioned'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13279410\"\u003eFerdinand Mount\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Continuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399409728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399409727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL010000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Theory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS037000\"\u003eWorld | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL040020\"\u003eWorld | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eHis most recent books are \u003ci\u003eKiss Myself Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eMaking Nice\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Bloomsbury Continuum.","brand":"Bloomsbury Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48109446856941,"sku":"9781399409728","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_ce969a4d-f7f7-4edd-9bc2-eb39b79f8369.jpg?v=1747605315","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/big-caesars-and-little-caesars-how-they-rise-and-how-they-fall-from-julius-caesar-to-boris-johnson-9781399409728","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}