Dictator Literature - A History of Despots Through Their Writing (Paperback)

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times `The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan), not to mention Stalin's own poetry. Certainly, to be considered great, a dictator must write, and write a lot. Mao had his Little Red Book, Mussolini and Saddam Hussein their romance novels, Kim Jong-il his treatise on the art of film, Hitler his hate-filled tracts. What do these texts reveal about their authors, the worst people imaginable? And how did they shape twentieth-century history? To find out, Daniel Kalder read them all - the badly written and the astonishingly badly written - so that you don't have to. This is the untold history of books so terrible they should have been crimes.

General

Imprint:	Oneworld Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2019
Authors:	Daniel Kalder
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-78607-538-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Totalitarianism & dictatorship
LSN:	1-78607-538-5
Barcode:	9781786075383

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