The Unmaking Of A Dictator: Books: Mar. 29, 1968
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Yet his tragedy, as White correctly points out, was that with all his love of liberty and order, he could not trust himself to trust the people, and so attempted to twist the law into the vehicle for his ambition. This is the lesson that Journalist White appears to offer today's rulers. "When men are treated as God, they begin to feel they are God," says White. Absolute power, he suggests, does not merely corrupt; it invites paranoia. The real virtue of this crisp exercise is that it is put in terms that a historian can respect and even a county politician can understand.
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