{"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":"Ferdinand Mount","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55327992709498,"sku":"9781399409728","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781399409728_2fc623d9-31d1-4709-934b-104506ae70e1.jpg?v=1766842840","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781399409728","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}