How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

Frank Dikötter

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology informative fast-paced
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked powe...

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