History's Most Insane Rulers: Lunatics, Eccentrics, and Megalomaniacs From Emper

by Michael Rank

Few mixtures are as toxic as absolute power and insanity. When nothing stands between a leader's delusion whims and seeing them carried them out, all sorts of bizarre outcomes are possible. Whether it is Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I practicing archery on palace servants and sending out his advisers to find the fattest woman in the empire for his wife or Turkmenistan President Turkmenbashi renaming the days of the week after himself and constructing an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483981126
• ISBN13: 9781483981123
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"