Kent Middleton

A Well constructed and written, if oversimplified accounting of the common threads between dictators during the last hundred years. Clearly designed to expose the similarities between these historical figures and modern events in the US, it serves as a rudimentary warning to learn from history even as we continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. The tone, however, is flippant and tends to trivialize the untold horrors regimes such as those established by the likes of Idi Amin and therefore fails to bring home the true human cost of falling prey to strongman rule.