Gideon Rachman is the Chief Foreign Affairs columnist for the Financial Times. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. Previously he worked for The Economist for fifteen years, and has served as a foreign correspondent in Washington, Bangkok and Brussels.
Essential reading... Recent events in eastern Europe and beyond
make it all the more timely
*The Times, *Books of the Year**
Solidly constructed, engaging and factually sound... A penetrating
distillation of the essential ingredients of the strongman
*Financial Times*
Timing is everything. Gideon Rachman has got his spot on with The
Age Of The Strongman
*Daily Mail*
Timely...Rachman... has a journalist's eye for the telling quote
combined with a sharp analysis of the factors that enabled them to
achieve power and hold on to it
*Sunday Times*
This is a brilliant, unsettling portrait of our era
*Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good War*
When it comes to making sense of today's world, Gideon Rachman is
in a league of his own. He is sharp, original and
unsentimental.
*Ivan Krastev, co-author of The Light that Failed*
Essential and definitive... To understand the chilling stakes of
the global Great Game defining this century - the battle between
autocracies and democracies - you need only turn to Rachman's
magisterial and deftly written book
*Catherine Belton, author of Putin’s People*
Timely, laser-sharp and unsettling. In telling us about strongmen
who dominate politics around the world, Gideon Rachman paints a
picture that is at turns illuminating and terrifying. A must
read
*Peter Frankopan, author of The New Silk Roads*
A searing analysis... A superb and scintillating portrait,
indispensable for understanding our crisis-riven age
*Shruti Kapila, author of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political
Thought in the Global Age*
In a chaotic world where old definitions of left and right no
longer hold, Rachman expertly and artfully surfaces the underlying
political, economic and cultural patterns behind the new
authoritarianism across the world
*Peter Pomserantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda*
A carefully written analysis of strongman leaders all over the
world and the threat they pose to liberal democracy... Rachman
illuminates the common instincts, tactics and behaviour that link
leaders as diverse as Trump, Putin, Xi and Modi
*Anne Applebaum*
This readable book does an admirable job of providing the lay of
the land and highlighting the importance of the battle of ideas for
the future of our institutions and norms
*Daron Acemoglu, coauthor of Why Nations Fail and The Narrow
Corridor*
Brilliant and profoundly alarming... a comprehensive survey,
written with pace, clarity, and a superb, page-turning narrative
fluency
*Scotsman*
Rachman... always prompt[s] deeper thought about how the West
should be dealing with the challenge [of the strongman]... [a]
lucid, well-argued book
*The Times*
Fascinating...Rachman uncovers a source of contemporary
authoritarian thinking in many places
*Literary Review*
Wide-ranging and astute... Rachman's most powerful point concerns
not the strongmen themselves, but Western politicians' and
commentators' wishful thinking about them
*Economist*
This is a book whose significance is enhanced by unpredictable
events... [A] pithy and forceful book
*Observer*
A series of fluent, well-informed essays about the global rise of
authoritarianism
*Guardian*
This brilliant and profoundly alarming book...offers a
comprehensive survey, written with pace, clarity, and a superb,
page-turning narrative fluency
*Scotsman, *Summer Reads of 2022**
[A] brilliant and profoundly alarming book... Gideon Rachman offers
a comprehensive survey, written with pace, clarity, and a superb,
page-turning narrative fluency
*Yorkshire Post*
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