Tyrants in Our Time: Lives of Fourteen Dictators

What is it that happens in childhood that may cause one as an adult to kill millions of his own countrymen? In Tyrants in Our Time: Lives of Fourteen Dictators, June Stephenson explores the common denominators in the childhood of fourteen modern tyrants. She takes us from their early years to their first grab for power, their cruel use of power, their addictive need for more and more power for which everything and anyone, and even their own country may be sacrificed.

Tyrants in Our Time: Lives of Fourteen Dictators outlines the step-by-step process to tyrannical government — warnings to all who would hope to preserve democracies — or even to raise children who are not bullies.