Thugs : how history's most notorious despots transformed the world through terror, tyranny, and mass murder /: how history's most notorious despots transformed the world through terror, tyranny, and mass murder. ([2007])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Micah D. Halpern.
• Other Names: Halpern, Micah D
• Contents: PART ONE: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: Hammurabi: the first law maker -- Rameses II: God of Egypt -- David: the shepherd king -- Cyrus: the enlightened dictator -- Darius: the benevolent dictator -- Cleopatra: Hollywood's not so beautiful beauty queen -- Herod: the man with an Edifice Complex -- Pontius Pilate: he washed his hands of the whole affair -- PART TWO: THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST: Abdullah I: from desert wanderer to king -- Farouk: the King of Porn -- Gamal Abdel Nasser: Twentieth-Century Arab visionary -- Idi Amin: Africa's native son -- Anwar Sadat: dictator who made peace -- Siad Barre: "Only the gun can make him go?" -- Ben Ali: benign Muslim dictator -- Al-Bashir: the Demon of Darfur -- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: brutal oppressor, political ally -- Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini: the extreme extremist -- Hafez Assad: stable, predictable, brutal -- Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Jr. -- Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz al-Sa'oud: gambler, playboy, monarch -- Muammar Ghadaffi: eccentric tyrant -- Bashar Assad: myopic eye doctor -- Saddam Hussein: dean of the demons -- PART THREE: WESTERN EUROPE: Alexander the Great: the Classical dictator -- Julius Caesar: loved by the masses, hated by friends -- Henry VIII: a very fat ruler -- Louis XIV: a monarch's monarch -- Maximilien Robespierre: off with their heads in the name of Liberte -- Leopold II: king of exploitation -- Ioannis Metaxas: the man who evicted Mussolini -- Adolf Hitler: the short, great dictator -- Benito Mussolini: he who kept the trains on time -- Francisco Franco: Fascist obsessed -- Henri Philippe Petain: very, very Vichy -- PART FOUR: EASTERN EUROPE: Ivan IV: terribly awesome --Alexander III: his father's son, his son's father -- Nicholas II: the naive and inept czar -- Vladimar Lenin: the ideologue with a goater -- Josef Stalin: short, paranoid, and insecure -- Josip Broz Tito: from partisan to dictator -- Zog: son of the palace cook -- Nicolae Ceausescu: strong-arm father of Romania -- Slobodan Milosevic: the ethnic cleanser -- Alexander Lukashenko: dangerous and very paranoid -- PART FIVE: ASIA: Genghis Khan: conqueror not barbarian -- Chiang Kai Shek: transpanted tyrant -- Mao Tse-Tung: his red book rocked the world -- Pol Pot: despot of the killing fields -- Ferdinand Marcos: dutiful husband, deluded dictator -- Imelda Marcos: the devil who wore Prada, Jourdan & Magli -- Than Shwe: Myanmar? Where is Myanmar? -- Islom Karimov: One-half Uzbek and one-half Tajik -- Saparmut Niyazov: comic book demon -- Kim Jong-Il: maniac with platform shoes and high hair -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Definitions of terminology,
• Publisher Details: Nashville, Tenn : Thomas Nelson
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages)
• Subjects: 321.9092/2; World politics -- Miscellanea; Despotism; Totalitarianism; Mass murder; Diktator; Tyrann; Despotism; Mass murder; Totalitarianism; World politics; Miscellanea; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781418573355; 1418573353
• Related ISBNs: 9781595550736; 1595550739
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-342) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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