The Dictators - 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History

The Dictators: Lessons from History includes elected and unelected dictators, wartime and peacetime dictators, those driven by ideology and those with a reputation for sheer brutality. How did these tyrants, autocrats and despots seize power and how did they exercise it? And how did they lose it? Very few dictators die peacefully in their own beds. Are there specific character traits that all dictators share? What can we learn from them in order to spot the warning signs in future? Examining sixty of the most significant and notorious dictators from the 4th century BC to the present day reveals that there are common signs and conditions that enable dictators to seize power. Through the spectrum of a wide variety of dictators in different parts of the world and throughout history, themes and patterns inevitably emerge. Iain Dale has brought together 64 different authors - a mix of historians, academics, journalists and politicians - to write about 67 different dictators. The Dictators: Lessons from History is acutely relevant to world politics today: it is indeed a warning from history.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Dale
• Assisted by: Iain Dale (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2024
• EAN: 9781399721608
• ISBN: 978-1-399-72160-8
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 52 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History; History, History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, General and world history, Biography and non-fiction prose