{"product_id":"9781399409711","title":"Big Caesars and Little Caesars","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of strong men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, 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. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Ferdinand \/ Mount","offer_id":46927203270970,"sku":"9781399409711","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/products\/9781399409711.jpg?v=1696493333","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/9781399409711","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}