How to Be a Dictator

An Irreverent Guide

By: Mikal Hem, Kerri Pierce - translator

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

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 from the most successful leaders and regimes in the business, including Kim Jong Il, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolae Ceauşescu, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, and many others, this handy guide offers 10 easy lessons on becoming and acting like a dictator: from how to rig an election and create your own personality cult to the do's and don'ts of dictator fashion and palace architecture, how to become wealthy and spend your fortune the right way, expressing your literary genius, and how to avoid being toppled, exiled, and/or meeting any other dismal end.

Combining black humor with political insights, How to Be a Dictator is peppered with horrifying and hilarious stories from some of the most eccentric modern world leaders.

©2017 Mikal Hem (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Not really informative, mediocre entertainment

Title sums it up. You won’t walk away from this with any deep knowledge, maybe a fun fact or two. The narrative itself is just not that fun either. It jumps around a lot within a single chapter and you get a really shallow view of a bunch of dictators instead of more illustrative case studies of fewer dictators. This is the one time where the Netflix story is better than the book.

That being said, the audio is fine. Reader does a good job at giving the tone of the book and in a nice cadence.

Informing and entertaining

I like the sarcastic approach of the book. It is filled with interesting trivia and the lifestyles of the rich and tyrannical. Fun adventure in poetical science.

People are weird

A bizarre parade of stories that display the amusing behavior of those with too much excess.

if I ever decide to be a dictator

if I ever take the notion to become a dictator I will definitely need this book... being is average as I am this book was very informative and believe it or not extremely funny extremely funny the author has a great sense of humor and I love this book it was wonderful

Entertaining, Easy Listen, Interesting History

Title says it all. It's a light 'read', but it has a great number of interesting historical details. I quite like it. After I started listening to it, my partner began listening to it independently and surprised me when he put it on. That was neat. He enjoyed it as well, and I got to hear it a second time.