How To Be A Dictator, Frank Dikotter hong kong from the nature of attachment

from the nature of attachment

a morally dangerous pastime

It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest

Buzz Aldrin

How To Be A Dictator, Frank Dikotter hong kong from the nature of attachmentFrom the Samuel Johnson prize winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling exploration of the cult of personality that surrounded eight twentieth century dictators Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel