Tyrant

<p><b>'Brilliant' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>How does a truly disastrous leader &#150; a sociopath a demagogue a tyrant &#150; come to power? How and why does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?</b><br><br><b>For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas William Shakespeare has no peer.</b><br><br><b>'Brilliant timely' Margaret Atwood on Twitter</b><br><br><b>'A scintillating book uncannily illuminating about current politics as perceptive about the victims of tyranny as it is about the tyrants themselves' Nicholas Hytner</b></p>