The Age of The Strongman

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