Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist , Foreign Affairs , The Times (UK) and Sunday Times From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders Around the world.
In the process, he identifies the common themes in our local nightmares, finding global coherence in the chaos and offering a bold new paradigm for navigating our world..
While others have tried to understand their rise individually, Rachman pays full attention to the widespread phenomenon and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction among these leaders.
Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career.
What\'s more, these leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy.
And everywhere they go, they encourage a Cult of personality.
At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations.
These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent, or the interests of foreigners.
Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington.
This is the most urgent political story of our time: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics.
The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization .
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist , Foreign Affairs , The Times (UK) and Sunday Times From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders Around the world
