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The Infernal Library : on Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy by Daniel Kalder is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown." —The Washington Post A darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive aud

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Author

Daniel Kalder

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781627793438

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Literary Biography

Updated

2026-03-25