"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."—The Washington PostA harrowing tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring th
A harrowing 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
A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times`The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul
