How to be a dictator : the cult of personality in the twentieth century
Dikötter, Frank2019
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In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders? This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.
Main title:
How to be a dictator : the cult of personality in the twentieth century / Frank Dikötter.
Author:
Dikötter, Frank, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.©2019
Collation:
xvi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
ISBN:
9781408891612 (paperback)1408891611 (paperback)
Dewey class:
321.90922321.9
Language:
English
BRN:
357468