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Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots

by Peter York, Douglas Coupland
Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots
Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots

Opulent excesses of history's notorious rulers.

If you're intrigued by the extravagant and sometimes bizarre tastes of history's strongmen, "Dictator Style" is a delightful and eye-opening read. Peter York takes you on a vivid tour of the palaces and hideaways that these figures orchestrated as testament to their power and peculiar aesthetic preferences. It's like a history lesson with a twist of interior design flair.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots

by Peter York, Douglas Coupland
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ISBN: 9780811853149
Authors: Peter York, Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date of Publication: 2006-05-04
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Politics, History, Art
Related Topics: History, Politics, Architecture
Goodreads rating: 3.63
(rated by 182 readers)

Description

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 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.
 

Opulent excesses of history's notorious rulers.

If you're intrigued by the extravagant and sometimes bizarre tastes of history's strongmen, "Dictator Style" is a delightful and eye-opening read. Peter York takes you on a vivid tour of the palaces and hideaways that these figures orchestrated as testament to their power and peculiar aesthetic preferences. It's like a history lesson with a twist of interior design flair.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.