| Dictators' Homes: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colourful Despots | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter York, Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 158353
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1843545578
EAN: 9781843545576
ASIN: 1843545578
Publication Date: October 12, 2006
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 A brilliant tour through the minds of little men with far too much power May 29, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Your typical dictator lacks the fashion sense of a Peter York or the ironic analytical detachment of a Douglas Coupland -- and it shows. This lush photographic guide to a dozen dictator's palaces provides a unique insight into the domestic desires -- or lack thereof -- of these powerful and ruthless (but frequently ill-educated and ignorant) men. Given the almost unlimited resources at their disposal, how do they choose to live, and what do their domestic surroundings tell us about them, as people? York and Coupland set out to answer this question, and the results are nothing if not surprising.
(NB: readers of a delicate disposition might wish to skip rapidly past the discussion of Nicola and Elena Ceaucescu's bathroom habits, which were, to say the least, rather peculiar.)
 Duplication January 13, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I would advise against buying both Dictator's Homes and Dictator's style. Despite the different titles, they share the same text and photographs. It is almost as if the authors and publishers are bunch of greedy crooks. The set made a poor Christmas present.
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