Dictators


Autocracy, Inc.
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
I Must Betray You
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
Lenin the Dictator
Young Stalin
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiPink and Say by Patricia PolaccoThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterHow I Learned Geography by Uri ShulevitzThe Yellow Star by Carmen Agra Deedy
Picture Books About Times of War
225 books — 44 voters
A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen GillilandKill Anything That Moves by Nick TurseZlata's Diary by Zlata FilipovićFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngSome People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
"Strongmen" and Resilience
16 books — 1 voter

The Scriptwriter by Adeerus GhayanAgency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office by Khalid MuhammadPakistan by Imran KhanSongs of Blood and Sword by Fatima BhuttoMilitary Inc. by Ayesha Siddiqa
Pakistan Politics
49 books — 40 voters

Alberto Manguel
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

one cannot ignore associating laboratory rats with the millions of deprived young people who suffer under the merciless political and administrative experiments carried out by dictators, multinationals and mercenary militias.
Hanan Jasim Khammas

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