The Nature of Despotism: From Caligula to Mugabe, the Making of Tyrants by Tom Ambrose

The Nature of Despotism: From Caligula to Mugabe, the Making of Tyrants

Tom Ambrose

232 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
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The difference between a strong ruler and a despot can be defined by gratuitous cruelty in excess of the need to retain power, but what is it that drives a ruler to this extreme? The tyrants discussed in The Nature of Despotism share common backgr...

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