Describes the history of dictators during the modern 20th century.

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

"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown." —The Washington Post A darkly humorous tour of "dictator

Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictato