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- The age of the strongman : how the cult of the leader threatens democracy around the world / by Rachman, Gideon,author.(CARDINAL)503363;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Putin : the archetype (2000) -- Erdogan : from liberal reformer to authoritarian strongman (2003) -- Xi Jinping : China and the return of the cult of personality (2012) -- Modi : strongman politics in the world's largest democracy (2014) -- Orbán, Kaczynski and the rise of illiberal Europe (2015) -- Boris Johnson and Brexit Britain (2016) -- Donald Trump : American strongman (2016) -- Rodrigo Duterte and the erosion of democracy in South East Asia (2016) -- The rise of MBS and the Netanyahu phenomenon (2017) -- Bolsonaro, Amlo and the return of the Latin American caudillo (2018) -- Abiy Ahmed and democratic disillusionment in Africa (2019) -- Merkel, Macron and Europe's struggle against the strongmen (2020) -- George Soros, Steve Bannon and the battle of ideas -- Epilogue : Biden in the age of the strongman."The author of Easternization, an award-winning journalist, offers an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the globe, charting the most urgent political story of our era. We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington. These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. What's more, these leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy. From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, Gideon Rachman pays full attention to the strongman phenomenon around the world and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction between these leaders. In the process, he finds the common themes in our local nightmares and offers a bold new paradigm for understanding our world, and finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. While others have tried to understand the emergence of these new leaders individually, Age of the Strongman provides the first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to key actors in this drama: Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Authoritarianism.; Heads of state; Charisma (Personality trait); World politics;
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- Feet of clay : saints, sinners, and madmen : a study of gurus / by Storr, Anthony.(CARDINAL)510240;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and indexx.- Subjects: Biographies.; Authoritarianism; Charisma (Personality trait); Control (Psychology); Cults; Gurus; Gurus; Spiritual biography.;
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- The authoritarian moment : how the left weaponized America's institutions against dissent / by Shapiro, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)468123;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-263) and index.How to silence a majority -- How the authoritarian left renormalized America -- The creation of a new ruling class -- How science[trademark symbol] defeated actual science -- Your authoritarian boss -- The radicalization of entertainment -- The fake news -- Unfriending Americans.We all come to moments when we face pivotal decisions, but many feel that they have no guidance for how to make good choices. In 'The Authoritarian Moment', Ben Shapiro lays out the seven most important decisions we'll ever make, and provides a framework for how to make those decisions with virtue and wisdom.- Subjects: Democratic Party (U.S.); Liberalism; Authoritarianism (Personality trait); Right and left (Political science); Political culture; Authoritarianism.;
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- The strange case of Donald J. Trump : a psychological reckoning / by McAdams, Dan P.,author.(CARDINAL)744447;
Includes bibliographical references.Story -- Deal -- Reward -- Venom -- Truth -- Love -- Me -- Goldwater -- Us -- Primate -- Redemption."The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump provides a coherent and nuanced psychological portrait of the 45th president of the United States. Drawing on biographical events in Trump's life and on contemporary research and theory in personality, social, and developmental psychology, the book explores the personality traits and psychological dynamics that have shaped Trump's life, with an emphasis on the strangeness of the case - how Trump again and again defies psychological expectations regarding what it means to be a human being. The book's central thesis is that Donald Trump is the episodic man. He lives in the moment, outside of time, without an internal story to connect the discrete scenes in his life. As such, Trump perceives himself to be more like a superhero or a primal force, supernatural and timeless, rather than a flesh-and-blood human being with an inner life, a remembered past, and an imagined future. Trump's psychological status as the episodic man helps us understand both Trump's appeal (in the minds of millions) and his failings. The book's interpretation of Trump sheds new light on Trump's charisma, his deal making, his volatile temperament, his approach to personal relationships, his narcissism, and his emergence as a new kind of authoritarian leader in American history."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Presidents;
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