Strongmen : Mussolini to the present

The author lays bare the blueprint authoritarian leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. As one country after another has discovered, the strongman is at his worst when true guidance is most needed by his country. Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko's kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet's torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi's systems of sexual exploitation, and Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump's misinformation: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos. Recounting the acts of solidarity and dignity that have undone strongmen over the past 100 years, the author makes 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.