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How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive is a 2024 non-fiction book written by Marcel Dirsus and published by John Murray. [1] [2] The book examines historical strategies for overthrowing dictators and their effectiveness in the modern era, particularly in the context of contemporary mass surveillance technologies.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World is a 2024 non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum and published by Doubleday. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book examines how Autocratic governments, which do not share a common ideology, collaborate to increase their power and control against the democratic and liberal countries. [ 3 ]
The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant. García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life leaders, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain (the novel was written in ...
Dictator literature (abbreviated as dic-lit [1] or dictator lit [2]) is the body of literature written by or attributed to dictators. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Although some dictator literature consists of poetry , most are prose , [ 5 ] including such works as novels , [ 6 ] theoretical texts , tracts , and memoirs . [ 4 ]
Adenoid Hinkle (played by Charlie Chaplin) and Napaloni (played by Jack Oakie) parody of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, respectively, in The Great Dictator. In fiction, dictatorship has sometimes been portrayed as the political system of choice for controlling dystopian societies in books, video games, TV and movies.
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
As a new book by CNN anchor and national security correspondent Jim Sciutto reminds us, Trump allegedly believes that even the most murderous dictators, such as Hitler, did good things.
A document from the collection of Henri Max Corwin, equating Joseph Stalin with Adolf Hitler. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Soviet Union during the period of Joseph Stalin's rule, along with Nazi Germany, was a "modern example" of a totalitarian state, being among "the first examples of decentralized or popular totalitarianism, in which the state achieved overwhelming popular ...