The Age of The Strongman

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 WarWhen 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 FailedEssential 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 PeopleTimely, 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 RoadsA 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 AgeIn 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

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.

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