Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single political parties, persist in repressing and brutalizing their citizens without ever attracting anything like Saddam's or Kim Jong-il's level of international attention.
Read more
In this fascinating, eye-opening read, New York Timesbestselling author David Wallechinsky offers in-depth portraits of each of the twenty worst dictators — and the governments they head — currently in power: exposing their crimes, and revealing their strange personalities and mysterious backgrounds. Tyrantsalso reveals the extent that foreign corporations and governments support these tyrants despite their policies.
Timely and provocative, crafted with the popular touch that has made Wallechinsky a bestselling author, Tyrantswill awaken you to the criminal regimes of the present — and pose challenging questions about America's role in curbing (or promoting) their power in the future.
The Tyrant Hall of Shame includes:
Kim Jong-il/North Korea
Hu Jintao/China
Seyed Ali Khamenei/Iran
King Abdullah/Saudi Arabia
Muammar al-Qaddafi/Libya
Omar al-Bashir/Sudan
Islam Karimov/Uzbekistan
Saparmurat Niyazov/Turkmenistan
Fidel Castro/Cuba
Liked Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Queen Victoria: Her Girlhood and Womanhood Shares nonfiction, biography, history
-
The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls Jr. Shares nonfiction, biography, history -
Huey: Spirit of the Panther Shares nonfiction, biography, history -
Undaunted Heart: The True Love Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General Shares nonfiction, biography, history
