Children of Monsters
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Children of Monsters

An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators

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Children of Monsters

An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators

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What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What’s it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on. The book is not about them, really, though of course they figure in it. It’s about their children.Some of them are absolute loyalists. They admire, revere, or worship their father. Some of them actually succeed their father as dictator—as in North Korea, Syria, and Haiti. Some of them have doubts. A couple of them become full-blown dissenters, even defectors. A few of the daughters have the experience of having their husband killed by their father. Most of these children are rocked by war, prison, exile, or other upheaval.Obviously, the children have things in common. But they are also individuals, making of life what they can. The main thing they have in common is this: They have been dealt a very, very unusual hand.What would you do, if you were the offspring of an infamous dictator, who lords it over your country?An early reader of this book said, "There’s an opera on every page” a drama, a tragedy (or even a comedy). Another reader said he had read the chapter on Bokassa "with my eyes on stalks.”Meet these characters for yourself. Marvel, shudder, and ponder.

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Publisher
Encounter Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9781594039003
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. 1. HITLER
  8. 2. MUSSOLINI
  9. 3. FRANCO
  10. 4. STALIN
  11. 5. TOJO
  12. 6. MAO
  13. 7. KIM
  14. 8. HOXHA
  15. 9. CEAUŞESCU
  16. 10. DUVALIER
  17. 11. CASTRO
  18. 12. QADDAFI
  19. 13. ASSAD
  20. 14. SADDAM
  21. 15. KHOMEINI
  22. 16. MOBUTU
  23. 17. BOKASSA
  24. 18. AMIN
  25. 19. MENGISTU
  26. 20. POL POT
  27. Afterword
  28. A Note on Sources
  29. Acknowledgements
  30. Photo Credits
  31. Index