books about: dictatorships

books about: dictatorships

books:

Dictatorships

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet
Heraldo Munoz

Basic Books, 2008

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator?s Shadow , United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives?as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat?to tell what this ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander The Great To The Fall Of The Taliban

Stephen Tanner

Da Capo Press, 2003

Overall Hostory of Afghanistan
I wanted to study up on the region while I was assigned there, and I read many books from Amazon.com. Many had bits and pieces of the history, but this book had a grand view from early times of Alexander the Great, the Muslim invasions, the Mongol conquest to later ...

Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule (Politics in Contemporary Asia)

Christina Fink

Zed Books, 2001

A good read...
A facinating, well written book that sheds light on an area of the world I knew little about. I usually find scholarly works somewhat dry and hard to get through. This book was hard to put down. I won't launch into a lecture on why you SHOULD read this or try to ...

Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy

Paul Preston

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

Definitely a masterpiece!
The complete title of Paul Preston's book on the present Spanish monarch-- "Juan Carlos, Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy"--says it all. If you want to read about the king and his love of fast cars and beautiful women, consult the tabloids. Several ...

The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

Ian Kershaw

A Hodder Arnold Publication, 2000

Not for casual reading
This book is a collection of short and dense summaries of other prominent works written on Nazism. Thoroughly researched and contanining a wealth of information, Kershaw's work is a valuable introduction for any researcher or college student. However, I think the ...

Terror and Liberalism

Paul Berman

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Balanced, Informative, insightful
The negative reviewers of this book fail to judge the book on its merits.

The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship: An Examination of Epistemic Autocracy, From the 19th to the ...

Paul Collins

BookSurge Publishing, 2006

Social Engineering and Technocratic Elite
Many of us are familiar with U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961, in which he warned the American public to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence" of the "military-industrial complex." A less known ...