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How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikoetter romance or while “scavenging in theEssential reading' EVENING STANDARD, BOOK OF THE WEEK`Elegant and readable' THE TIMES`A whistlestop tour' OBSERVERMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. 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. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the