Great book –  This is the 2nd read but it didn’t get a 10 last time because there were a lot of new Ideas in it for me.  I’d not thought about it much – I’d read about dictatorships but as I came to find out at some point during the second read – these are not the same things,  even if North Korea is both of them. 

Autocracy, Inc; 
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
by Anne Applebaum
Read by author
Rating:  8.75 / modern history 

This time the pieces fit and I realized that most autocracies are more complex than one dictator running his own country for his own profit and pleasure.  like  An autocracy is a kleptocratic network of financial structures and all the security and technological services and forces to go with them. Keeping them secure for one particular personal entity or a group of nations.  I learned how they operate within their borders and sometimes across borders. I learned how they operate out of the basic greed of the top autocrat and others.  I learned that the phenomenon spreads. And I learned about a guy named Gene Sharp and his ideas.   oo