{"id":47073,"date":"2026-03-06T20:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=47073"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:45:57","slug":"book-strongmen-how-they-rise-why-they-succeed-how-they-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/book-strongmen-how-they-rise-why-they-succeed-how-they-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cSTRONGMEN: HOW THEY RISE, WHY THEY SUCCEED, HOW THEY FALL\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1608988832i\/54621100.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/932848.Ruth_Ben_Ghiat\">Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ours is the age of the strongman. Russia, India, Turkey and America are ruled by men who, as they have risen to the top, have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And as they do so, they draw on a playbook of behaviour established by figures such as Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler.<br><br>Here, political historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat draws on analysis of everything from gender and sexuality to diplomatic strategy to explain who these political figures are \u2013 and how they manipulate our own history, fears and desires in search of power at any cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72225\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/932848.Ruth_Ben_Ghiat\">Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/strong>&nbsp;is an internationally acclaimed historian, speaker, and political commentator for the&nbsp;<em>Atlantic<\/em>, CNN, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>, and other publications. She is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and lives in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall Ruth Ben-Ghiat Ours is the age of the strongman. Russia, India, Turkey and America are ruled by men who, as they have risen to the top, have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/book-strongmen-how-they-rise-why-they-succeed-how-they-fall\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47074,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47073\/revisions\/47074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}