By exploring the lives of six dictators throughout history, Chris Taylor details the rise of modern totalitarianism and the lasting impacts felt today. By examining these dictators as a framework to understanding the importance of their rise to power and decline. Taylor explores how each leader creates a form of government that asserts total control over the lives of its citizens and the dangerous implications of absolute power.
This work of nonfiction provides concrete evidence of how modern totalitarians are developed and moulded. It leaves us wondering what we do in the face of contemporary totalitarianism?
*Beginning in the nineteenth century there has been a steady rise in totalitarianism – From Napoleon to The Journey to Modern Totalitarianism, is an introductory guide.*