
Listen to Sir Ferdinand Mount speaking about his latest book on leaders called Big Caesars and Little Caesars
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The End of History
In Marx's eyes, this comic, Mountie Bank had an hope. Victor Hugo called him Napoleon the Patee. Well, Louis Napoleon had the last laugh on both of them. When I say big Caesars, I don't mean that they aren't anywhere. Greater or superior. I just mean many of them have been monsters,. as you know. Every would be Caesar has his own alternative narrative. What I mean is that the environments, the law breaking, they're lying, are on a huge, often limitless scale. Whereas little Caesars are content to introduce new repressive laws and tell lies. They're right up for the last minute we believe. It couldn't
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