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Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots
Chronicle Books
June 2006
132 pages
ISBN: 0811853144
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Welcome to the fabulous lifestyles of the cruel and
despotic. Running with the idea that our homes are where we
are truly ourselves, Peter York's wildly original and
scathingly funny look at the interior decorating tastes of
some of history's most alarming dictators proves that
absolute power corrupts absolutely, right down to the
drapes. Mining rare, jaw-dropping photographs of interiors
now mostly (thankfully) destroyed, York's hilarious profiles
of 16 inner sanctums of the scary leaves no endangered tiger
pelt unturned, from Saddam Hussein's creepy private art
collection to General Noriega's Christmas tree to the
strange tube and knob contraption in the Ceausescu bathroom.
All your favorite dictators are here: Hitler, Lenin, Stalin,
Tito, Mussolini, Mobutu, Idi Amin, Ferdinand and Imelda
Marcos�each with their own uniquely frightful chic. An
interior decorating book like no other, Dictator Style is a
welcome tonic for a world in need of a good laugh at the
expense of the all-powerful.
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