{"product_id":"9781399409728","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":48925103030586,"sku":"9781399409728","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781399409728.jpg?v=1719056528","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781399409728","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}