num_pages: 160
description: Power Mad! is a candid collection of authentic, fantastic facts surrounding the world's most deranged dictators. Charting the grisly, sometimes unbelievable demands and "policies" of these mad, bad men, Power Mad! will leave you astonished by their egos, eccentricities, and undeniable insanity. Facts range from Chairman Mao banning The Sound of Music as "a blatant example of capitalist "pornography" to Idi Amin organizing basketball games in which he alone was allowed to score. He once had a palace guard killed for blocking his shot.
language: English
title: Power Mad!: A Book of Deranged Dictators
titlecomplete: Power Mad!: A Book of Deranged Dictators
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Michael O'Mara