Author: Clive Foss
Publisher: Quercus
Keywords: tyrants
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-02-06
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1905204353
ISBN-13: 9781905204359

From Herod to Papa Doc Duvalier, from Nero to Saddam Hussein, here are 50 chilling portraits of the despots whose iron-fisted rule left an indelible mark on the history of the world. Presenting a compelling chronology of the moments in history when the principles of government and law were corrupted by the vanity of the ambitious and unscrupulous, "The Tyrants" recounts the story of each dictator individually. From irresistible rise to inevitable fall, it describes how these men and women - as often outcasts or outsiders as kings or queens - were able to manipulate the political climate of the

Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: tyrants, modern
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 1996-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691027773
ISBN-13: 9780691027777

Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.

Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: tyrants, modern
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1994-02-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 002905477X
ISBN-13: 9780029054772

Examines such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Bokassa, Ne Win, Trujillo, Duvalier, and Ceaucescu, discussing why new ideological tyrants thrive despite the decline of communism.

Author: Christopher A. Snyder
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: britons, britain, tyrants
Number of Pages: 403
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0271017805
ISBN-13: 9780271017808

By the waning of Roman rule, Britain was called a "province fertile with tyrants". Christopher Snyder’s history of Britain during the two centuries after Rome’s withdrawal reveals a hybrid society of Celtic, Roman, and Christian elements and documents the transition from magisterial to monarchical power. An appendix explores the Arthur and Merlin myths. 30 illustrations.

Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: heroes, rogues, beasts, tyrants, work, among, road
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-09-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 087113876X
ISBN-13: 9780871138767

From the #1 New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down to the acclaimed Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden has been praised for his unique, novelistic ability to put his reader in the heat of the story. Road Work collects Bowden’s award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer to his most recent high-profile pieces in The Atlantic. Road Work takes us everywhere from a small town in Rhode Island where one of the largest cocaine rings in history is uncovered, to the Luangwa Valley in Zambia where a bold team of antipoachers fights to save the fate of the black r

Author: David Wallechinsky
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: dictators, living, worst, world, tyrants
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0060590041
ISBN-13: 9780060590048

Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea’s Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single political parties, persist in repressing and brutalizing their citizens without ever attracting anything like Saddam’s or Kim Jong-il’s level of international attention. In this fascinating, eye-opening read, New York Times bes

Author: Emmet Sweeney
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: chronology, chaos, greek, tyrants, heroes, gods
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0875866816
ISBN-13: 9780875866819

Is it possible that the history of ancient Greece as found in the textbooks is seriously misdated? Emmet Sweeney is not the first to make such a proposal. That honor goes to Immanuel Velikovsky, whose series Ages in Chaos (1952) held that the whole of ancient Near Eastern history before the classical age was a fabrication.Velikovsky identified Egyptian chronology as the source of the problem; and indeed the chronology of early Greek history, during the so-called Mycenaean period, was constructed along the lines demanded by Egyptian history. And, in a multitude of ways, legend and tradition agr