A revealing guide to how dictators manipulate the masses 'The handbook that humanity needs right now' – Terry Szuplat, former speechwriter for Barack Obama If you’ve ever wondered how dictators manipulate with words, why certain political speeches that changed history can send a chill down your spine, or how the psychology of mass persuasion really works, this book takes you inside the machinery. The Language of Evil is a gripping work of narrative nonfiction about evil leaders and the dark art of rhetoric—how carefully crafted phrases can move ordinary people to cheer, obey, and even kill. Across more than two millennia of dictators and propaganda history, speechwriter and rhetoric expert Guy Doza shows how the same patterns of language have been reused again and again. From Julius Caesar and Attila the Hun to Wu Zetian, Chinggis Khan, the queens of Europe, Napoleon, Goebbels, Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein and more, you’ll see how the rhetoric and power of language shaped empires,