Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think!
By (Author) Sarah Kendzior
Illustrated by Kasia Babis
By (author) Andrea Chalupa
Roaring Brook Press
First Second
26th September 2023
24th July 2023
United States
General
Fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction
History
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous
Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship
741.5
Hardback
304
Width 162mm, Height 235mm, Spine 28mm
822g
Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image Can you tell lies without blinking an eye Do you see enemies all around you If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just stumbled upon the playbook that will guide you step by step toward making your big lie a reality. Join Gaslit Nation cohosts Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa, with artist Kasia Babis, on a journey from riches to even more riches. They'll show you how to consolidate your authority, silence your critics, weaponize your citizens, and even prolong your inevitable downfall! Dictatorship! It's easier than you think.
Sarah Kendzior is the author of the bestselling books The View From Flyover Country, Hiding in Plain Sight, and They Knew. She is the co-host of the acclaimed podcast Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and was named by Foreign Policy as one of the "100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events." Kendzior has a PhD in anthropology from Washington University, where she researched authoritarian regimes of the former Soviet Union. She lives in St. Louis. Andrea Chalupa is the writer and producer of the award-winning journalistic thriller Mr. Jones, directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Peter Sarsgaard, and Vanessa Kirby, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. She is the co-host of Gaslit Nation with Sarah Kendzior and helped launch #DigitalMaidan, a hashtag of Ukraine's EuroMaidan Revolution and the 2017 March for Truth, demanding transparency in the Russia/Trump investigation. She graduated from UC Davis and regularly speaks about Ukraine and Russia to the press and schools. She lives in Brooklyn. Kasia Babis is a Polish cartoonist, illustrator, and political activist with an online following of 100,000 fans. Her viral comics skewer social issues ranging from racism to street harassment from a feminist perspective.