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Ever wonder if the world's tyrants are all using the same instruction manual? They are here it is. From getting to power, to dividing your enemies, suppressing revolution, stealing elections, and making your fortune, this 320 page volume shows you how the pros have been doing it for centuries. Fully factual and gorgeously illustrated, with a complete bibliography and footnotes, the Dictator's Handbook gives you a road map to tyranny, step by step. Truly a practical manual for the aspiring tyrant.
Dictator Handbook edition by Randall Wood Carmine DeLuca Politics Social Sciences eBooks
Steal a car, go to jail. Steal a country, and the world will look the other way while you hang on for decades, looting, lying, raping, murdering. I read this book with mounting anger: “I follow the news, so why was I learning about the atrocities of these dictators for the first time? Does no one care? What hope is there for people living under the rule of these thugs? Why does my country (Canada) have trade and diplomatic relations with third-world bandits?” It’s a book that will leave you very, very angry, yet paradoxically, it’s an easy read, almost funny in spots, with scathing sarcasm.If you think dictators can only seize power in banana republics and African backwaters, then read this book and learn to watch for the danger signs. Recognize what is happening in the United States and several European countries. Dictator’s Handbook shows how democracy can be undermined, step by step. . It’s a valuable book.
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Dictator Handbook edition by Randall Wood Carmine DeLuca Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
A Book Review of
The Dictator’s Handbook A practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant
By Randall Wood and Carmine DeLuca
When you ask the average American reader to name a good book about dictators, the one that comes to his or her mind quickly is Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. Unbeknownst to him or her, however, is the growing body of literature on the phenomenon political dictatorship. In fact, Randall Wood and Carmine Deluca’s book titled The Dictator’s Handbook A practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant is an interesting example in this regard. De jure, the book is worth reading because it is more than a success guide for aspiring dictators; any individual who wants to satisfy his or her intellectual curiosity or lay threadbare the labyrinth of dictatorship will find this book immeasurably useful. What is the general description of the book title, author, subject, and format? Who are the authors and where do they stand in this field of inquiry? Randall Wood is an engineer and teacher who has worked and lived in Africa, Asia, and Latin America—the primary habitat of dictators; Carmine DeLuca is a history enthusiast. Without pretending to be either pedantic political scientists or academic dons, these authors rely on their personal and professional experiences to write a book about dictators. To tell the truth, these authors are very knowledgeable, and they include examples of dictators from all over the world in a compact manner. Even if you do not want to become a dictator, the book’s insights will illuminate the pathways of your intellectual insights; all US Congressional staff should read this book; I also recommend this book to student leaders and their followers. Using a less formal style, the book organizes its thirteen chapters into vignettes for quick comprehension by less educated readers. This is a good book because it tackles the problem for the audience it has identified. Why should readers buy the book? The book is not only cleverly and clearly written, but it also furnishes unique political information that is in high demand and cannot be found elsewhere. The book addresses the common curiosity question of many people How do dictators learn to obtain and hold on to power?
Using a simple and persuasive style of writing, in thirteen chapters, Randall Wood and Carmine DeLuca present political dictatorship like a game of chance or a sport. While the dictators and aspiring dictators are perceived to be the players of the game or sport, the writers play the role of coaches of a football superbowl or soccer world cup. In chapter one, the writers educate the reader on the various ways one can rise to fame and power as a dictator. In chapter two the authors discuss how to select the right personality as a new dictator. In chapter three the authors teach you how to form and organize your government. In chapter 4, the authors teach the new dictator how to administer his or her government. In chapter 5, the authors coach the new dictator on how to employ fear as a weapon for subjugating and terrorizing the governed. In chapter 6, the authors introduce the new dictator to the machinations party politics. The authors discuss how dictators use the military, security, and intelligence forces in chapter 7. In chapter 8, the authors advise the reader on the strategies dictators employ to handle unrests, riots, and demonstrations. As for chapter 9, the authors use it to show how dictators control the mass media (radio, television, and press) and the Internet. Chapter 10 is a primer on how dictators, such as Paul Biya of Cameroon, make a mockery of democracy at home and still fool the international community. In chapter 11, the authors give succinct advice on how dictators, such as Sani Abacha, capture the private and public sector of their economies before looting their national treasuries. The strategies of organizing sham elections to give the semblance of democracy to the international community are presented in chapter 12. Finally, in chapter 13, the authors show how dictators envisage their end game of political power.
On the whole, this is a well-written and researched book on dictators for the general audience. Unlike Machiavelli’s The Prince, for instance, Wood and DeLuca’s book is very down-to-earth. The book makes no pretensions of ivory tower theories and philosophies. If the goal of the authors was to familiarize the general public with a precise idea of the mind and workings of a typical dictator, then, they have achieved their goal. Indeed, this goal achievement is why I would recommend this book to members of the SCNC (Southern Cameroons National Council) and student groups like CAMSA USA. Without academic pretensions, the authors use simple language to paint a true picture or portrait of the quintessential dictator. Have you ever wondered whether all the world’s dictators read the same instruction manual? This book answers your questions unhesitatingly, so buy and read it today.
Prince Ojong
Author of The Miraculous Millionaire
I do not get the feeling reading this book that the writers have much personal experience possibly fortunately with their subject. I have experienced some of it in the Gulf, Iran and Palestine. One of the main points missing in this book is a study of ideology. If you think about it, to run a country a democracy needs approximately 50% of the community, you maybe able to get by with less but ball park figure you need about 50%. A dictatorship needs much less but it still needs say 20% to operate. There are generals, colonel, ministers, department, heads, judges, police chiefs, businessmen etc all that have to have to serve you. At the very least you need the people holding the guns to do what you tell them. Money will help but still you need something more. This is where an ideology helps.
Often this ideology is something that put you into power. It is something that you probably once believed in and gave up considerably much for. Most dictators and their lieutenants actually have suffered greatly for this ideology. Castro, for example, gave up the privileges of the son of a wealthy farmer, to adopt leftist anti-imperialist politics. He spent a year in jail, before becoming a revolutionary. Robert Mugabe gave up a teaching position to become a 'progressive' for that he was incarcerated for ten years. Many of their lieutenants would have similar histories. Lenin was exiled and lost a brother. Stalin spent most of his youth in prisons and on the run. There is no evidence that they do not believe for example Nicolae Ceau'escu sang "The Internationale" while being led up against the wall and shot.
It justifies their rule and helps them often it is mixed with nationalism, This is what largely kept Germans fighting in Berlin long after the cause was lost, what kept Russians fighting at Moscow when many thought the cause was lost. This drives the Pakistani to keep battling India long after the war been lost.
This book is a very light-hearted view on this subject.
OK..all Indians should read this,to see familiar traits among all leaders starting at Panchayat levels.The fact that not a single Indian appears between the pages of this political primer is ,somewhat a consolation;or are many countries elsewhere is far worse?
It provides all the tips that you need to take over a country! Thanks to this book, I am ready to give a Coup d'état, and become a dictator. I am just waiting for the appropriate time,
as described
Steal a car, go to jail. Steal a country, and the world will look the other way while you hang on for decades, looting, lying, raping, murdering. I read this book with mounting anger “I follow the news, so why was I learning about the atrocities of these dictators for the first time? Does no one care? What hope is there for people living under the rule of these thugs? Why does my country (Canada) have trade and diplomatic relations with third-world bandits?” It’s a book that will leave you very, very angry, yet paradoxically, it’s an easy read, almost funny in spots, with scathing sarcasm.
If you think dictators can only seize power in banana republics and African backwaters, then read this book and learn to watch for the danger signs. Recognize what is happening in the United States and several European countries. Dictator’s Handbook shows how democracy can be undermined, step by step. . It’s a valuable book.
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