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Dinner With Mugabe: The Untold Story Of A Freedom Fighter Who Became A Tyrant (2008)

by Heidi Holland(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0143025570 (ISBN13: 9780143025573)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Penguin Global

review 1: Does the ego of dictators follow logic? None ever turn inward and blame himself for the violence and corruption of his regime but blames the media, saboteurs and enemies. How does one get to be a dictator? Do childhood experiences set the authoritarian personality? This book is a series of interviews: “This is Your Life, Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe.” A nationalist activist who after being jailed for a decade is part of the leaders of a bush war against white rule in Rhodesia, Mugabe is initially an impressive and accomplished leader of the new democratic Zimbabwe. Once a shy, bookish child, then an impeccably dressed and polite rebel leader, he’s now a nearly 90-year old megalomaniacal paranoid mass murderer. Holland’s interviews are interesting, everyone—fro... morem former guerrillas to white Rhodesians—seems to be lying or self-deluded. Though we get a good sense of the historical circumstances great and small that framed Mugabe’s ruin, we also get a lot of tired psychobabble speculation.
review 2: I thought this book was very well constucted. It not only gave insight into the questions of Mugabe's background, but also into the crafting of an historical document about a man who is still alive... but at some point will become part of the fabric of the past. It is compelling to see that a man can still be living, and be seen so many different ways by his own contemporaries. It is interesting to see how the pattern of a man's life is not just established by the deeds therein, but by the intention which underlies every deed. A person can do good things and still become a horrible character on the world stage... I think that this book would go well with another book I read.. A Continent For the Taking. (If you are interested in gaining a background about African politics.) less

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