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

and with his collaborators

sports and culture journalist

Written by a white priest called to pastor an historically Black congregation in Washington DC

Africans were hunted like animals

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

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.