Thugs : how history's most notorious despots transformed the world through terror, tyranny, and mass murder / Micah D. Halpern.
| Author/creator | Halpern, Micah D. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, ©2007. |
| Description | xvi, 350 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| 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, |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-342) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007013037 |
| ISBN | 9781595550736 |
| ISBN | 1595550739 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | D32 .H36 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |