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The Intimacy of Power: Dictators and Their Personal Spaces

This chapter examines the symbolic meaning behind the personal spaces of dictators and how these areas reveal their vulnerabilities after their downfalls. Through historical examples, it illustrates the contradiction of their desire for total control in contrast to the often private nature of these spaces.

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