{"product_id":"9781526626998","title":"Dictators : The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Dikoetter, Frank, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/07\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Political structures: totalitarianism \u0026amp; dictatorship\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526626998\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMussolini, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikoetter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021427015833,"sku":"9781526626998","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781526626998_bcf00dcd-42c9-4016-a977-af89f83986c6.jpg?v=1601395098","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781526626998","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}