Children of Monsters
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What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil? Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He 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 war, prison, exile, or other upheaval. Obviously, the children have 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. What would you do, if you were the offspring of an infamous dictator, who lords it over your country?
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Nordlinger, J. (2017). Children of Monsters. [United States], Encounter Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nordlinger, Jay. 2017. Children of Monsters. [United States], Encounter Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nordlinger, Jay, Children of Monsters. [United States], Encounter Books, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nordlinger, Jay. Children of Monsters. [United States], Encounter Books, 2017.
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