books about: dictatorship

books about: dictatorship

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Dictatorship

Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
Ken Silverstein

Random House, 2008

?As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price?it?s not personal, just business.? ?a Washington, D.C., lobbyist For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the United States, there have been lobbyists haunting the halls of Congress?shaking hands, bearing gifts, and brandishing agendas. Everyone knows how ...

Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships

Mancur Olson

Basic Books, 2000

Balanced, Insightful, and relevant
Power and Prosperity is an example of economics at its best. First of all, it takes a balanced or neutral approach to its subject matter. The author is not out to prove the superiority of either markets or government. Governmental power is a double edged sword to ...

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Wielding Occam's Razor
Economists are turning their focus of inquiry to subjects that were once the exclusive preserve of their colleagues in other social sciences--history, sociology, and political science. The title of this book, "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy," appears to ...

Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

Harvest Books, 1968

A rationale that explains the horrors of totalitarianism.
Hannah Arendt describes totalitarianism as a system of total domination based on a combination of propaganda and terror. She bases it primarily on a policy of keeping the population off balance by systematically arresting and executing members that it decides are ...

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

NAL Trade, 2005

Be Militant for at least Once
Lee Roscoe has recently (© 2005) adapted Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here to the stage. This play is a militant agitprop work and is available to people who want to produce it for an audience in a militant perspective to fight against the present erring ...

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe (Vintage)

Robert Gellately

Vintage, 2008

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: Three evil dictactors plunge Europe into the inferno of world war and millions of needless deaths
The twentieth century has gone down in infamy as the bloodiest century in history. This horrible fact is due to many political and economic factors most notably World War I and World War II. In no small measure this holocaust was created, nurtured and led by the three ...

How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator

Andre de Guillaume

Chicago Review Press, 2005

Hilarious
This book shows you how to climb your way up to the top and RULE how to rule your own country and be a dictator gives alot of examples from dictators throughout history and explains if they did it so can you funny and hilarious highly recommended

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Barrington Moore

Beacon Press, 1993

Examing Modernization
Moore seeks to examine the paths to modernity adopted by various countries and the subsequent political outcomes. Principally, more concentrates on the emergence of democracy, fascism, and communism. Moore argues that each path to modernization is characterized by a ...

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

John Ralston Saul

Vintage, 1993

AN INTELLECTUAL TOUR DE FORCE
John Saul makes the argument that when the world swung away from the faith-based beliefs of the Middle Ages to the rational thinking of the Age of Reason, it over-reacted in equating rational thinking with truth. In other words, rational arguments may lead to false ...

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

Harvest Books, 1973

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS I HAVE READ.
MY EDUCATION WOULD BE INCOMPLETE HAD I NOT READ THIS BOOK. EASILY 5 STARS.

Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos: Iraq Since 1989 (Global History of the Present)
Thabit A.J. Abdullah

Zed Books, 2006

This is a concise, readable, yet rigorous history of Iraq since the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the Cold War to the present day by a well-regarded and serious Iraqi intellectual. Abdullah takes the reader through a chronological journey, exploring how Hussein came to power, the consequences of the Iran-Iraq war; how Hussein's regime developed; ...

Constitutional Dictatorship - Crisis Government In The Modern Democracies

Clinton. L Rossiter

Rossiter Press, 2007

A Necessary Reissue
Following the terror attacks of September 11, it seemed only a matter of time until Clinton Rossiter's classic comparative study of emergency powers, Constitutional Dictatorship (1948), would regain prominence in the United States. Rossiter's book a time the best ...

Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile (Cambridge Studies in Law and ...
Lisa Hilbink

Cambridge University Press, 2007

A longitudinal case study of Chile that assesses competing hypotheses regarding judicial behavior in both democratic and undemocratic contexts, this book explores the relevance of regime-related factors, judges' personal policy preferences, social class, and legal philosophy, but argues that institutional features grounded in the ideal of ...

The Composition

Antonio Skarmeta

Groundwood Books, 2003

This composition sings
At first glance, "The Composition" is a book that simply describes military dictatorships in a way that children will understand. On a closer look, however, Antonio Skarmeta's brilliant 2000 creation does more than that. It shows how every human being, regardless of ...

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

R. J. B. Bosworth

Penguin Press HC, The, 2006

Excellent
This is an ambitious and successful attempt to write the social history of Fascism. Italian Fascism, Bosworth reminds us, controlled Italy for almost a generation, a considerably longer period than the disastrous experiment of Nazi rule of Germany. How was Fascism ...