Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Book Overview

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin--enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.

For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393868419
• ISBN13: 9780393868418
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Thought Provoking

The author connects historical contexts, actions and policies of strongmen (fascists) with the modern day movements so well, almost like she is putting together a puzzle. She's clearly well researched and brings light to a lot of current events and what history tells about how similar fascists movements start, what happens during and eventually how fascists movements have been defeated and or pushed out.