Madmen of History (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald D. Hook
- First Published: 1976
- Time of Work: 1420–1970
- Setting: Continental Europe, the Dominican Republic, the United States, and Japan
- Principal Characters: Ivan the Terrible, Maximilien de Robespierre, Adolf Hitler, John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gavrilo Princip, Adolf Eichmann, Nat Turner, Tomás de Torquemada
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Murder or homicide, Assassination, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Ambition, Terrorism or terrorists, Torture, Biography, Paranoia, Fanaticism
- Locales: Europe, United States, Japan, Dominican Republic
Form and Content
In Madmen of History, Donald D. Hook examines the lives of eighteen unbalanced, ruthless people who affected history. The book is divided into three sections, with six lives to each section. The first section, entitled “Despots,” describes dictators Ivan the Terrible, Pope Alexander VI, Maximilien de Robespierre, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Rafael Trujillo. The second section is entitled “Assassins” and profiles John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charlotte Corday, and Gavrilo Princip. The third section,...
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