Dictator style
Subtitle: lifestyles of the world's most colorful despots
By: Peter York ; foreword by Douglas Coupland
Contributors: Coupland, Douglas
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780811853149
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Dictators; Biography
Description: "Running with the idea that our homes are where we are truly ourselves, Dictator Style examines the frightening interior decorating tastes of some of history's most alarming despots--and proves that absolute power corrupts absolutely, right down to the drapes"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Tree forts and love shacks, by Douglas Coupland; title: Introduction; title: Get the look; title: Porfirio Díaz; title: Vladimir Lenin; title: Joseph Stalin; title: Benito Mussolini; title: Adolf Hitler; title: Josip Broz Tito; title: Francisco Franco; title: Juan Perón; title: Nicolae Ceausescu; title: Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; title: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos; title: Idi Amin; title: Jean-Bédel Bokassa; title: Saddam Hussein; title: Manuel Noriega; title: Slobodan Milosevic; title: Brief lives; title: Picture captions and credits; title: Acknowledgments.