The Little Book of Loony DictatorsThe Equatorial Guinean president Macias Nguema once initiated a cabinet reshuffle by clubbing his foreign minister to death.Idi Amin entertained his fellow African presidents by demonstrating how to suffocate someone with a handkerchief.In 1956 Chairman Mao#xE2;#xAC;"s Sports Minister recognized a new track-and-field event, the hand-grenade throw.Adolf Hitler tried to cure his chronic flatulence by drinking machine-gun oil.In a single day in December 1938 #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Uncle Joe#xE2;#xAC;" Stalin signed 3,182 death warrants.The Little Book of Loony Dictators charts the grisly, fantastic, unbelievable abuses of power of the world#xE2;#xAC;"s most deranged dictators, from Chairman Mao banning The Sound of Music as #xE2;#xAC;Sa blatant example of capitalist pornography#xE2;#xAC; to Papa Doc Duvalier rewriting the Lord#xE2;#xAC;"s Prayer for blanket use in Haitian Schools (#xE2;#xAC;SOur Doc, who art in the National Palace for life.#xE2;#xAC;).From the paranoid to the prejudiced, the megalomaniacs to the money mad, the astounding authentic histories of our craziest modern tyrants are all sewn up in this book.