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Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators by Jay Nordlinger (Hardcover, 2015)

What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil? Jay Nordlinger sets out to answer that question. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on. This book is not about them, really, though of course they figure in it. It's about their children. Some of them are absolute loyalists. They admire, revere, or worship their father. Some of them actually succeed their father as dictator-as in North Korea, Syria, and Haiti. Some of them have doubts. A couple of them become full-blown dissenters, even defectors. A few of the daughters have the experience of having their husband killed by their father. Most of these children are rocked by war, prison, exile, or other upheaval. Obviously, the children have things in common. But they are also individuals, making of life what they can. The main thing they have in common is this: They have been dealt a very, very unusual hand.

Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Jay Nordlinger
Publication Name
Children of Monsters: an Inquiry Into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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