| My Favourite Dictators: The Strange Lives of Tyrants Contributor(s): Mikul, Chris (Author), Smith, Glenn |
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ISBN: 190939470X ISBN-13: 9781909394704 Publisher: Headpress OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Humor - Political Science - History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 332 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Dictators may be among the worst people in history, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't laugh at them. In My Favourite Dictators, Chris Mikul tells the stories of eleven of the twentieth century's most colourful and reviled human beings, including Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il. In each case, he examines the political backgrounds to their rise to power and eventual downfall, but the focus here is on the personalities, peculiarities and private lives of these very strange men. You'll be amazed and appalled by their effortless cruelties, voracious sexual appetites, absurd personality cults, ostentatious uniforms, promotion of dreadful art and pretensions to being great writers - not to mention their terrible taste in interior decoration. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mikul, Chris: - Chris Mikul has been clipping weird stories out of newspapers for as long as he can remember. He's been writing and publishing Bizarrism, Australia's longest-running zine, since 1986, and also produces Biblio-Curiosa, a zine devoted to strange fiction. His other books include The Cult Files, Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary, The Eccentropedia and Bizarrism Vols 1 and 2. He lives in the Sydney suburb of Newtown, home of many an eccentric, with his partner Cath.Smith, Glenn: - Glenn 'Glenno' Smith is an art mercenary, paying the rent in Sydney with his wonderful wife Gina and the beginnings of an army of vengeful cats. He spends most of his time drawing wizards for doom bands and spikey lettering for bands that don't care if the text is legible or not. He teaches illustration, plays in a band called Chinese Burns Unit and can be found in a sitting position at his desk most hours of the day. Glenno is also making inroads into the dysfunctional world of fine art, curating and exhibiting in a vain hope to seem legit and adult... |
