Tyranny From Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2022)
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Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but the US seems to have devolved into a land that celebrates real-life dictators. Applying historical lessons to contemporary events, Fiala uses the history of tyranny to reveal how we can safeguard ourselves against the draw of idealogues and their sycophants.

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