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100 1  Ben-Ghiat, Ruth,|eauthor. 
245 10 Strongmen :|bMussolini to the present /|cRuth Ben-Ghiat. 
250    First Edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    xviii, 358 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-336) and 
       index. 
520    "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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Dictators. 
650  0 Dictatorships. 
650  0 Authoritarianism. 
650  0 Heads of state|zAfrica. 
650  0 Heads of state|zEurope. 
650  0 Heads of state|zLatin America.