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Children of Monsters
- An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Engelsk Paperback
Children of Monsters
- An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781594038990
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1594038996
Udg. Dato:
23 feb 2017
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
Encounter Books,USA
Oplagsdato:
23 feb 2017
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