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The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to history's most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes. In a handsome hardcover format, this handy encyclopedia of totalitarians is as informative as it is titillating, a lurid panorama of history's most malignant autarchs with original full-color portraits and accompanying psychobiographical profiles. From pharaohs to ayatollahs, from Caesar to Hitler, here are fifty-three profiles of history's most warped personalities and their shocking crimes. Roman Emperor Nero, who lit the roads to the Coliseum's night games by lining them with human torches made of the burning bodies of crucified ChristiansAlfredo Stroessner, under whose administration Paraguay offered comfortable refuge to former Nazis while rifle-toting 'sportsmen' flocked to the countryside on weekends to legally hunt Indians Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda, where power outages at the capitol were a routine occurrence because the sluiceways at the nearby hydroelectric dam were clogged with the bodies of so many citizens executed in his torture cells that the pampered local disposal team--the crocodiles--couldn't eat the

Author

text by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620877463

Subjects

Political Science, History, Humanities

Rating

2.88 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14