Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People

By: Daniel Kalder

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781786070593
Publisher:: Oneworld Publications
Date of Addition:: 11/02/19
Copyrighted By:: Daniel Kalder
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.