Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas - On Psychopaths and Power
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How Did You Get Into Global Politics?
Brian writes about the relationship between power and personality, disorder and corruption. He started his career studying authoritarian leaders in places where democracy was broken. After speaking to 500 people around the world he decided it was both a question of whether power corrupts or whether corruptible people seek power. "The dynamics were worth writing about in a book because they're much less straightforward than you might expect"
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