dictators

When a government official comes into a third grade classroom and tells the students to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night, " Pedro must decide how he feels about the military dictatorship that is running his country.

Describes the components and development of democracy, discusses influences on democratic politics and economics, and compares democracy to other types of governments.

Discusses the history and theory behind dictatorship as a political system and explains how it has been applied in practice.

Discusses, in text and illustrations, the events in the world between the years 1919 and 1939 and the emergence of dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Franco.

Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.

Presents a comprehensive survey of seven dictators and tyrants covering twenty-five hundred years of history including Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Robespierre, Ivan the Terrible, Nero, and Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, and discusses the ways in which each were able to obtain and maintain control over their people.

Recounts the careers of such famous tyrants as Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Idi Amin.