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Dictator Literature

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times’˜The writer is the engineer of the human soul,’™ claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi’™s Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan), not to mention Stalin’™s own poetry. Certainly, to be considered great, a dictator must write, and write a lot. Mao had his Little Red Book, Mussolini and Saddam Hussein their romance novels, Kim Jong-il his treatise on the art of film, Hitler his hate-filled tracts. What do these texts reveal about their authors, the worst people imaginable? And how did they shape twentieth-century history? To find out, Daniel Kalder read them all ‘“ the badly written and the astonishingly badly written ‘“ so that you don’™t have to. This is the untold history of books so terrible they should have been crimes.

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