Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.
From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant
...Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xviii, 373 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist--to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. Garcia Marquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 116 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the 'shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live.' Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 125 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the Marble Cliffs (Auf den Marmorklippen) is a novella by Ernst Jünger published in 1939 describing the upheaval and ruin of a serene agricultural society. The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the rough pastoral folk in the surrounding hills, who feel increasing pressure from the unscrupulous and lowly followers of the dreaded head forester. The narrator and protagonist lives on the marble...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Their mutual-admiration club also draws on models from the past. Vladimir Putin rehabilitates Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump praises Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi, Jair Bolsonaro...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing tour of 'dictator literature' in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse." -- From book jacket.
9) Dictatorship
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A book for middle school students about the history of the dictatorship as a political system"--
Author
Series
Dagger and the coin volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
513 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tyrant Geder Palliako, rogue banker Ban Cithrin bel Sarcour of the Medean, and disgraced widow and loyal traitor to the Empire Clara Kalliam continue the great war while, in the shadows of the world, Captain Marcus Wester tracks an ancient secret that will change the war in ways not even he can forsee.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, as new technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the cult of personality to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The puppetmaster's apprentice, Pirouette Leiter, is tasked to build a wooden assassin by the Margrave of Tavia, or her puppetmaster father will be imprisoned.
Impressed by the work of the puppetmaster and his apprentice, Tavia's ruler, The Margrave, has ordered dozens of life-size marionette soldiers to be sent to Wolfspire Hall. When the puppetmaster is unable to fill the order for a hundred soldiers by the deadline, he is imprisoned in the Wolfspire...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 540 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing political and personal story of the Al-Fayeed family and its role leading a regime in the country of Abuddin.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. The book reveals why most of today's authoritarians are spin dictators-and how they differ from the remaining "fear dictators" such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the story of Jesus Christ in which the death of a sermon-giving, sick-healing Jewish man in Roman-occupied Judea prompts four people to tell their tales.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing political and personal story of the Al-Fayeed family and its role leading a regime in the country of Abuddin.
18) Tyrant: Season 1
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (475 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Al-Fayeed "Barry", the son of a war-torn country's controversial dictator, returns to his homeland after a self-imposed exile in the U.S. But the lives of Barry and his American family are suddenly upended when Barry's volatile brother, Jamal, ascends to the throne. Barry's western views are pitted against Jamal's wife, Leila, who wants her husband to rule with an iron fist. Barry finds himsel torn between the seductive lure of power and the sympathy...
19) The dictator
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen banned and unrated ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 23 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The creators and star of Borat bring you the hilarious comedy about what happens when the world's worst dictator comes to America. Stuck in New York and stripped of his power, Aladeen is finally forced to live his ultimate nightmare, the American dream. Featuring never-before-seen footage, that's outrageous and shamefully funny!
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Becoming a Dictator, Based on the Outrageous, Scandalous, and Excessive Behavior of Dictators Past and Present
Who hasn't dreamed of one day ruling your own country? Along with great power comes unlimited influence, control, admiration, and often wealth. How to Be a Dictator will teach you the tricks of the trade-how to rise to the top and stay in power, and how to enjoy the fruits of your excellence.
Featuring examples...
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request