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Blood and Splendor: The Lives of Five Tyrants, From Nero to Saddam Hussein

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"A page turner . . . entertaining history that's told with gusto and goes down like a pleasant aperitif."
–The Washington Post Book World (regarding Myerson's The Linguist and the Emperor)

Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Stalin, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein. The names evoke horror and bloodshed -- but also awe at the range of power of these despots and their accomplishments. What makes a tyrant? And why, when history has taught us time and again that they must be stopped, do such leaders continue to e...