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008    170727s2018    nyua     b    001 0deng   
010      2017009633 
020    9781627793421|q(hardcover) 
020    1627793429|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)978287545 
037    |bHenry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, 
       USA, 10010|nSAN 631-5011 
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042    pcc 
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050 00 JC495|b.K29 2018 
082 00 321.9|223 
100 1  Kalder, Daniel,|d1974-|eauthor. 
245 14 The infernal library :|bon dictators, the books they wrote,
       and other catastrophes of literacy /|cDaniel Kalder. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHenry Holt and Company,|c2018. 
300    xvi, 379 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-364) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: Tradition and the individual tyrant -- Phase
       I: The dictator's canon -- Lenin -- Stalin -- Mussolini --
       Hitler -- Mao -- Phase II: Tyranny and mutation -- Small 
       demons -- Catholic action -- Disembraining machines -- 
       Eastern approaches -- Dead letters -- Another green world 
       -- Phase III: Dissolution and madness -- Midnight in the 
       garden of ultraboredom -- North Korea: the metafictions of
       Kim Jong-il -- Cuba: Castro's maximum verbiage -- Iraq: 
       the historical romances of Saddam Hussein -- Post-Soviet: 
       Comrade Zoroaster -- Turkmenistan: post-everything -- 
       Phase IV: Death is not the end -- Conclusion. 
520    "A harrowing tour of 'dictator literature' in the 
       twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and 
       poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how 
       books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse." -- 
       From book jacket. 
650  0 Dictators as authors|xHistory. 
650  0 Revolutionary literature|xAuthorship. 
914    MID.b25691405 
994    C0|bWHP