The Age of the Strongman How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World

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Publisher's Synopsis

**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**

'Essential and definitive'
CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE

We are in a new era.

From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global politics. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against 'globalist' elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiment of their nation. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality.

How and why did this new style of authoritarian leadership arrive? How likely is it to lead the world into war and economic collapse? And what liberal forces are in place, not only to keep these strongmen in check but to reverse the trend? The Age of the Strongman explores these essential questions and offers a bold new portrait of our world.

'TIMELY, LASER-SHARP... A MUST-READ' PETER FRANKOPAN

'FORCEFUL... A BOOK WHOSE SIGNIFICANCE IS ENHANCED BY UNPREDICTABLE EVENTS' MISHA GLENNY

'WIDE-RANGING AND ASTUTE' THE ECONOMIST

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Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529113556
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 303.34
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 234g
Height: 128mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 22mm