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With chapters on the use of ceremony and scapegoats to distract their people, the importance of building a personality cult, the pretension to and control of culture and the myth of efficiency, The Nature of Despotism is a fascinating look at what it is

Tom Ambrose read history at Trinity College Dublin and gained a postgraduate degree at University College London. He worked in advertising in London and Dublin before switching to producing and directing television documentaries. His widely acclaimed first book, Hitler's Loss: what Britain and America gained from Europe's cultural exiles (2001) was followed in 2005 by the successful The King and the Vice Queen: George IV's last scandalous affair.