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Nordlinger, Jay, 1963-
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Dictators -- Family relationships.
Totalitarianism -- Social aspects.
Parent and child.
Children of criminals.
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Nordlinger, Jay, 1963-
Dictators -- Family relationships.
Totalitarianism -- Social aspects.
Parent and child.
Children of criminals.
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Children
of
monsters
: an
inquiry
into
the
sons
and
daughters
of
dictators
/ Jay Nordlinger.
by
Nordlinger, Jay, 1963-
Encounter Books, c2015.
Call #:
321.9 N832c
Subjects
Dictators
-- Family relationships.
Totalitarianism -- Social aspects.
Parent and child.
Children
of criminals.
ISBN:
9781594038150 (hc.)
1594038155 (hc.)
Edition:
1st American edition.
Description:
xiv, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Hitler -- Mussolini -- Franco -- Stalin -- Tojo -- Mao -- Kim -- Hoxha -- Ceausescu -- Duvalier -- Castro -- Qaddafi -- Assad -- Saddam -- Khomeini -- Mobutu -- Bokassa -- Amin -- Mengistu -- Pol Pot -- Afterword.
Summary:
"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. It was about ten years after the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, Albania had been ruled by one of the most brutal
dictators
in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had
children
. He had indeed: three of them. Nordlinger wondered, "What are the lives of the Hoxha kids like? What is it like to be the son or daughter of a monstrous dictator? What must it be like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?" Nordlinger surveys 20
dictators
in all. They are the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on. The 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 exile, prison, and the like. Obviously, the
children
have some 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. This book investigates those lucky, or unlucky, few. Jay Nordlinger is an editor of National Review magazine"--Provided by publisher.
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