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Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat — WisdomDeck honest review
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Strongmen

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A century of authoritarian leaders from Mussolini to the present: their playbook of propaganda, corruption, virility and violence. Comparative and readable.

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  1. The playbook repeats.
  2. Corruption binds followers.
  3. Know the pattern.

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