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Books by dictators
- pdx 16y agoI find myself wishing for a leather bound set of dictator books, translated into English of course.
- bluekeybox 16y agoHad no idea Stalin wrote poetry. His poem listed in the article would fit right in with the shitty paintings by Hitler.
- ciupicri 16y agoHitler also wrote Mein Kampf.
- bluekeybox 16y agoKind of surprised they didn't include him, really. Haven't read Mein Kampf, but Hitler's paintings are about as far as bad taste can get.
- hugh3 16y agoIf there's a lesson here, it's the dangers of overconfidence. Most people, it is said, have a novel inside them. But for most people, that novel is shit. Your average person will start writing that novel, realise how shit it is, and give up. But if you're an all-powerful god-king, you're probably gonna finish and publish that novel without ever realising that you suck at writing.
- pnathan 16y agoI liked the tavern poetry.
- cafard 16y agoDon't forget Mussolini's novel _The Cardinal's Mistress_! In fairness, he did have experience in newspapers, so it is possible he wrote some of it himself. Mao wrote poetry. A friend who claimed to know such things told me that this poetry was pretty bad.