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“Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”
Category: Business
Duration: 00:22:35
Publish Date: 2023-01-04 07:00:00
Description:

Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to discuss her book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, which examines 100 years of authoritarian rule. She describes the characteristics of a strongman and the strange virility cult surrounding these leaders before turning to the central role of corruption in the autocrat’s playbook.

(This episode was originally published in November 2021.)
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