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The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to historyâs 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 historyâs 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 historyâs most warped personalities and their shocking crimes. Â
- Roman Emperor Nero, who lit the roads to the Coliseumâs night games by lining them with human torches made of the burning bodies of crucified Christians
- Alfredo Stroessner, under whose administration Paraguay offered comfortable refuge to former Nazis while rifle-toting âsportsmenâ flocked to the countryside on weekends to legally hunt IndiansÂ
- 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 teamâthe crocodilesâcouldnât eat them fast enough Â
About: The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to historyâs most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes.
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