A review by michael_soileau
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter

4.0

This book is basically a collection of brief biographies connected by the theme of a dictatorial cult of personality. While the idea is interesting and new, I'd have enjoyed some more synthesis and exploration of the the idea of such a cult, more than another example of another dictatorship that followed the same pattern.