Book · 2017 · Children of criminals
Children of Monsters
An Inquiry Into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
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There's a number of sources for this podcast which I'll I'll go through as we read them, but I do want to upfront plug a book called Children of Monsters by Jay Nordinger. Uh it's a great book.
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Children of Monsters by Jay Nordlinger is an examination of what it is like to grow up as the offspring of history's most notorious dictators. On Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans featured the book as a major source for his episode on the children of autocrats, explicitly plugging it as a great read for those seeking to understand generational tyranny. Evans drew extensively from its pages to recount the shocking behavior of various dictators' progeny. He quoted descriptions of Niku, the violent and alcoholic son of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who operated with absolute impunity. Additionally, Evans utilized the book to detail the lavish arrangements afforded to the offspring of other brutal leaders, such as the tutor who stayed in a five-star hotel while visiting Muammar Gaddafi's compound. The text also provided accounts of violent outbursts by Gaddafi's son Hannibal, who assaulted hotel staff and routinely evaded consequences through diplomatic immunity. Finally, Evans cited Nordlinger's reporting to trace the ultimate fates of these families, noting how figures like Saif al-Islam Gaddafi became the last remaining heirs after their relatives were publicly killed or fled into exile. Through these harrowing anecdotes, the book exposed the unchecked cruelty bred within hereditary authoritarian households.
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Robert Evans There's a number of sources for this podcast which I'll I'll go through as we read them, but I do want to u… 5
“There's a number of sources for this podcast which I'll I'll go through as we read them, but I do want to upfront plug a book called Children of Monsters by Jay Nordinger. Uh it's a great book.”
“I'm going to quote children of monsters. Again, here from his mid- teens, Niku was an outofcrol drunk and a rapist. He raped at will, and his will was ferocious and unopposable.”
“The book Children of Dictators quotes uh writer John Burn as saying he was this tutor who visited him was met by chauffeurred cars put up in a five-star hotel and summoned for private sessions to Hannibal's home where gazels and antelope strolled around a garden.”
“I'm going to quote from Children of Dictators here. Uh quote, "The officers had been guarding Hannibal's own room. He struck them with bottles and emptied a fire extinguisher on them for good measure. He then pleaded diplomatic immunity as he would habitually do."”
“Um, and in fact, he was like the last Gaddafi standing in Libya, uh, as as children of dictators puts it, after everyone else was, you know, murdered or or had fled the country to avoid getting murdered. Murdered in the street publicly.”
