Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Strongmen
- By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the “strongman” playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to... Read more
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