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Dictator Literature: A History of Despots Through Their Writing by Daniel Kalder howard Chapters are divided into BiscuitsWriting history is not usually a heroic pursuit, said Gerard DeGroot in The Times. Daniel Kalder, however, deserves a medal. To research this book, he spent years wading through the prose of dictators, ranging from such titans of tyranny as Lenin and Stalin to lesser despots such as Franco and Gaddafi. And he found that virtually all produced mind numbing drivel. Kalder, however, tenaciously stuck to his task, and the result is a highly entertaining