Strongmen : Mussolini to the present
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Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Their mutual-admiration club also draws on models from the past. Vladimir Putin rehabilitates Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump praises Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi, Jair Bolsonaro admires Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan invokes Adolf Hitler as the model of an efficient leader. Ruth Ben-Ghiat covers a century of authoritarianism to explain why strongman rulers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing from a common playbook of machismo, propaganda, violence, and corruption, have found popular support even as they bring ruin to their countries. The fruit of decades of research, Strongmen gives readers insight into how such rulers think, who and what they depend on, and how they can be opposed"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ben-Ghiat, R. (2020). Strongmen: Mussolini to the present (First Edition.). W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. 2020. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present First Edition., W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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