/taxonomy/term/3412 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en /books-october-2015-oliver-wiseman-jay-nordlinger-children-of-dictators <p><b>Author:</b>Oliver Wiseman</p>Daddy’s girl: The young Svetlana Stalin with her father in 1935<br /><br />Philip Larkin was right. They do fuck you up, your mum and dad. Some more than others, though. That much becomes clear by reading Jay Nordlinger’s new book. <br /><br />Children of Monsters asks a simple question about people in complicated circumstances: what must it be like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? Or to put it another way: what is it like to “bear a name synonymous with oppression, murder, terror, and evil”? <br /><p><a href="/books-october-2015-oliver-wiseman-jay-nordlinger-children-of-dictators"><span>read more</span></a></p> /books-october-2015-oliver-wiseman-jay-nordlinger-children-of-dictators#comments Books History Idi Amin Jay Nordlinger Josef Stalin Saddam Hussein Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:26:22 +0100 Oliver Wiseman 6224 at http://standpointmag.co.uk