Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 (Wolfgang Schivelbusch)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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The Rise of a Carismatic Leader
No western modern politician has had any element of this carisma. Donald trump may be good at the rabble rousing speech, but his speeches are hardly homed. We will not wake up one day with ted cruz or gavennusam as maximum leader. If such a man does arrive, we will know it again, for good or bad. Chivalbush next turns to propaganda,. The means by which carismatic leadership circumventing intermediary social and political institutions like parliaments, parties and interest groups gains direct hold upon the masses.
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