Ruth Ben-Ghiat lays bare the blueprint leaders from Mussolini to Trump have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. Authoritarian rulers promise law and order, then legitimize lawbreaking by financial, sexual, and other predators. They use masculinity as a symbol of strength and a political weapon, and they use propaganda, corruption, and violence to stay in power. Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko's kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet's torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi's systems of sexual exploitation, and the relentless barrage of misinformation utilized by the former Trump administration: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos. Ben-Ghiat makes vividly clear that only by seeing the strongman for what he is - and by valuing one another as he is unable to do - can we stop him, now and in the future
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat est une historienne de renommée internationale spécialisée dans l'étude des dictatures et des régimes autoritaires. Ses travaux explorent les mécanismes par lesquels le pouvoir se maintient et établissent des parallèles historiques avec les tendances politiques contemporaines. Grâce à une compréhension approfondie du passé, Ben-Ghiat offre des commentaires perspicaces sur les phénomènes politiques actuels.
