{"id":941,"date":"2020-10-26T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=941"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T22:35:40","slug":"strongman-the-rise-of-five-dictators-and-the-fall-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/strongman-the-rise-of-five-dictators-and-the-fall-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/strongman-595x898.jpg?resize=525%2C792&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"792\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12878\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jr8aht\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781250205643\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781250205643?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy<\/em><br \/>\nby Kenneth C. Davis (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> What makes a country fall to a dictator? How do authoritarian leaders&#8211;strongmen&#8211;capable of killing millions acquire their power? How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy? And what can we do to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again?<\/p>\n<p>See how it happened in these profiles of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history&#8211;Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein&#8211;by examining the forces in these strongmen\u2019s personal lives and historical periods that shaped the leaders they\u2019d become.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> Learning from the experience of history requires recognizing the patterns of dictatorships&#8211;the Stongman&#8217;s Playbook. Each of these profiles as laid out a set of steps that go into the making of a dictatorship. This blueprint typically includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extreme nationalism that calls for restoring a country&#8217;s past glory or greatness.<\/li>\n<li>Placing blame in a single group&#8211;usually an ethnic or religious minority, or foreign threat.<\/li>\n<li>Warning of an emergency, often nonexistent, or responding to severe economic distress that threatens the nation.<\/li>\n<li>Calls for &#8220;law and order&#8221; and eliminating corruption.<\/li>\n<p><\/ui><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy by Kenneth C. Davis (Author) Booktalk: What makes a country fall to a dictator? How do authoritarian leaders&#8211;strongmen&#8211;capable of killing millions acquire their power? How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy? And what can we do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/strongman-the-rise-of-five-dictators-and-the-fall-of-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-fb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1349,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":941,"position":0},"title":"Strong","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"June 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Strong by Rob Kearney (Author), Eric Rosswood (Author), and Nidhi Chanani (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Rob dreams of becoming a champion strongman. 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