Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Cover:Hardcover and with his collaborators

and with his collaborators

sports and culture journalist

Hawkins explores the role of racism-triggered childhood trauma and chronic stress in shortening his ancestors' lives

follow the life stories of ten Black men in American history and the legacies they left that forever changed the country

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Cover:Hardcover and with his collaboratorsWhy the worlds most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolutionsuch as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnamare extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges.