From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: Tradition and the individual tyrant
Phase I: The dictator's canon
Phase II: Tyranny and mutation
Phase III: Dissolution and madness
Midnight in the garden of ultraboredom
North Korea: the metafictions of Kim Jong-il
Cuba: Castro's maximum verbiage
Iraq: the historical romances of Saddam Hussein
Post-Soviet: Comrade Zoroaster
Turkmenistan: post-everything
Phase IV: Death is not the end
