TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalder,Daniel
TI  - The infernal library: on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy 
SN  - 9781627793421 (hardcover)
AV  - JC495 .K29 2018
U1  - 321.9 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - History
KW  - Dictators as authors
KW  - Revolutionary literature
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Dictators' writings
N1  - Includes index;  Introduction: Tradition and the individual tyrant -- Phase I: The dictator's canon -- Lenin -- Stalin -- Mussolini -- Hitler -- Mao -- Phase II: Tyranny and mutation -- Small demons -- Catholic action -- Disembraining machines -- Eastern approaches -- Dead letters -- Another green world -- Phase III: Dissolution and madness -- Midnight in the garden of ultraboredom -- North Korea: the metafictions of Kim Jong-il -- Cuba: Castro's maximum verbiage -- Iraq: the historical romances of Saddam Hussein -- Post-Soviet: Comrade Zoroaster -- Turkmenistan: post-everything -- Phase IV: Death is not the end -- Conclusion
ER  -