Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy: Second Edition, Revised by Carl J. Friedrich Hardcover

English | 1965 | ASIN: 0674332598 | 457 pages | PDF | 20.79 MB

This astounding overview of the rise and processes of dictators, holds up extremely well from its writing in 1956. It offers very good context, even reporting, so close to World War II and just as Hungary was under seige. It is almost a play book of how authoritarian states rise and how democracies can fall asleep at the switch. It was important when it came out, and utterly relevant today.