Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman History & Politics and they make everything okay

and they make everything okay like Life-Giving Rhubarb Cake

often historically shallow

his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV

the battle

staged show trials

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman History & Politics and they make everything okayA New Yorker Best Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year An Atlantic Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Politics Book of the Year Hitler, Stalin and Mao ruled through violence, fear and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip