The Good Dictator I The Birth Of An Empire
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The Good Dictator
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Author : GONCALO J NUNES. DIAS
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-20
The Good Dictator written by GONCALO J NUNES. DIAS and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-20 with categories.
An unidentified object park on the moon, no one seems to know his inception. Gustavo a middle-aged computer programmer, with a comfortable and grey life, decide to make a list, along with two friends, in order to survive in case of a hypothetical attack. He became obsessed with the list, spend a fortune, rob a drugstore and his own family think that he is going insane. However, after the attack, the insane it's well prepared for a new era in society. First book of a trilogy.
The Good Dictator I
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Author : Gonçalo JN Dias
language : en
Publisher: Gonçalo JN Dias
Release Date : 2016-11-25
The Good Dictator I written by Gonçalo JN Dias and has been published by Gonçalo JN Dias this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
From de award-winning Portuguese author Gonçalo JN Dias comes a trilogy about the struggle for power An unidentified object parked on the moon - and no one seems to know where it came from. Gustavo, a middle-aged computer programmer with a comfortable and grey life, decides to make a list of what he would need to survive a hypothetical attack. He becomes obsessed with the list, spends a fortune, robs a drugstore: his own family thinks he is going insane. However, after the attack, it’s the insane who are well prepared for a new era in society. Excerpt: Gustavo laughed again, he looked down with an amused look and saw the great hate that emanated from The Fatty. "Do you know why it came down to this? You on your knees and me standing and observing your village in flames? Because you’re the weakest link. You know, you fatty, in the animal world, the ones who adapt the better to the environmental conditions are the ones who survive, and just between you and me, we both have the best example of it. You, who still think you are the GNR commander and that someone will come from the past to make me pay for my deeds. While I have quickly adapted to the new reality: as soon as the craft landed on The Moon, I made a list of indispensable things, I spent a lot of money on this list, I robbed a drugstore and was considered to be crazy by my family, but when the attack occurred, this crazy one was the one who had adapted the best to the new environment. And, let me tell you: I longed for this attack; I was fed up with living my comfortable and gray life behind a computer. It’s your fault." – Gustavo pointed out to the village, from which, on that hill, one could hear the bustling noise of gunshots and could clearly see the fire inside the village and on the fields around it. – "Your pride and your attempt to keep your status-quo have brought us to this point. If you had known how to read the new winds, you would have understood that the only way was to join us and you’d certainly hold some important position in Malpica's committee or even as an officer in my army, but your lack of foresight has made your own village pay for it. Anyhow, it seems to me that it's for the best that people like you have no place in this new society – so as not to contaminate it. You’ve always taken advantage of your position to bring benefits to your house, you forgave fines, received bribes and gifts and certainly, you’d do the same in this new society if you were given a chance. But believe me, people like you, corrupt people who use their political or professional position to fill their pockets have their days numbered. For them, there will be a hard penalty, forced labor in prison along with the murderers, thieves and the remaining scum. The prisons in the Serrano Empire will be a place where there will be an average of work of twelve hours a day and if they get out of prison and commit another crime, there will be no second chance." "In the future, Gustavo, you will be remembered as a crazy and mad dictator. " – the former commander spoke now without any anger or hate, he had resigned himself to his cruel destiny and his look was serene and lost in the direction of his village. Gustavo also looked towards Malpica as if he watched a giant theater play and without shifting his eyes, he went on: " Perhaps, history is written by the victors and the same goes for the truth, there are always different perspectives."
How To Be A Dictator
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-05
How To Be A Dictator written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Political Science categories.
'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders? This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.
Wolf Of The Plains
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Author : Conn Iggulden
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010
Wolf Of The Plains written by Conn Iggulden and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
One man would become a legend. The young boy abandoned without a tribe on the harsh Mongolian plains faced almost certain death. Hunted and alone, he dreamed first of revenge against his enemies. In time, he would unite the great tribes, forming one nation under the sky. He would be the father to the nation. He would be Genghis Khan.
Julius Caesar
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Author : Luciano Canfora
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007
Julius Caesar written by Luciano Canfora and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this splendid profile, Canfora offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. The result of a comprehensive study of the ancient sources, "Julius Caesar" paints an astonishingly detailed portrait of this complex man and the times in which he lived.
Hill S Album Of Biography And Art
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Author : Thomas Edie Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Hill S Album Of Biography And Art written by Thomas Edie Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Biography categories.
The Political Economy Of Dictatorship
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Author : Ronald Wintrobe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-25
The Political Economy Of Dictatorship written by Ronald Wintrobe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-25 with Business & Economics categories.
Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice theory to model dictatorships: their strategies for accumulating power, the constraints on their behavior, and why they are often more popular than is commonly accepted. The book explores both the politics and the economics of dictatorships, and the interaction between them. The questions addressed include: What determines the repressiveness of a regime? Can political authoritarianism be 'good' for the economy? After the fall, who should be held responsible for crimes against human rights? The book contains many applications, including chapters on Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, South Africa under apartheid, the ancient Roman Empire and Pinochet's Chile. It also provides a guide to the policies which should be followed by the democracies towards dictatorships.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double ... a poor Jewish barber ... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.
How To Hide An Empire
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Author : Daniel Immerwahr
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-02-28
How To Hide An Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with History categories.
'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans either side. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is the story of the United States outside the United States – from nineteenth-century conquests like Alaska and Puerto Rico to the catalogue of islands, archipelagos and military bases dotted around the globe. Full of surprises and previously forgotten episodes, this fascinating book casts America’s history, and its present, in a revealing new light.
Empire S Legacy
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Author : John W.P. Veugelers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-21
Empire S Legacy written by John W.P. Veugelers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with Philosophy categories.
Many argue that globalization and its discontents explain the strength of populism and nativism in contemporary Europe, Latin America, and the United States. In France, though, an older potential born of imperialism has propelled the far right of Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen. To explain how the National Front gained a foothold in France, Empire's Legacy connects local politics with historical developments that span nearly two centuries. Its analysis hinges on the idea of political potential: the possibility that a social group will support a movement, pressure group, political party, or other organized option. Starting from the French conquest of Algeria, John W.P Veugelers follows the career of a potential, showing how it erupted into support for the National Front in Toulon, the largest city under the far right of any postwar European democracy. Relying on archival research, electoral surveys, and personal interviews, Veugelers shows that voluntary associations, interest-group politics, and patron-client relations knit together a far-right affinity bequeathed by French imperialism. Veugelers examines the possibilities and limits of far-right power at the local level, moreover, and the barriers that effective, scandal-free government pose to extremist success. Exploring new terrain in the study of contemporary politics, Empire's Legacy makes the case for a subcultural approach that connects social networks to symbolic codes.