{"product_id":"dictator-literature-a-history-of-bad-books-by-terrible-people","title":"Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA tour of the merciless leaders who inflicted their books upon society, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao and many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 04 April 2019\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Oneworld Publications\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Book of the Year for \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Times \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand the\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,’ claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi’s \u003cem\u003eBook of the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eLittle Red Book\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 372g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 129 x 197 x 29 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781786075383                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Kalder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44100271767802,"sku":"9781786075383","price":7.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/17e8663f77028736afe481ba235cd6cf.jpg?v=1627701000","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/dictator-literature-a-history-of-bad-books-by-terrible-people","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}