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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dikötter, Frank, author.     Subjects     Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.     Dictators -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dikötter, Frank, author.       by title:      How to be a dictator...         MARC Display

How to be a dictator : the cult of personality in the twentieth century / Frank Dikötter. by Dikötter, Frank, author. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. Subjects Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.   Dictators -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781639730681 (paperback) : 1639730680 (paperback) : Description:  xvi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm Contents:  Mussolini -- Hitler -- Stalin -- Mao Zedong -- Kim Il-sung -- Duvalier -- Ceauşescu -- Mengistu - - Afterword. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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. In the twentieth century, as new technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the cult of personality to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Diktter examines the cults and propaganda surrounding twentieth-century dictators, from Hitler and Stalin to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung. These men were the founders of modern dictatorships, and they learned from each other and from history to build their regimes and maintain their public images. They, in turn, have influenced leaders in the twenty-first century, including Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. How to Be a Dictator is a stunning portrait of authoritarianism and a map for exposing the lies dictators tell."-- Provided by publisher   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 321.90922 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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