Now for someone not really a dictator, but similarly immoral as the political figures that I have excoriated, John Gotti. The mansion of "Dapper Don" John Gotti was up for sale in 2003. Much unlike the usual denizen of 10 Downing Street, killing and stealing were foci of this horrible man's life.
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The Variety article says far more than I can. My taste would be for austere, spacious, and brainy.
The Variety article says far more than I can. My taste would be for austere, spacious, and brainy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.