The Little Book of Loony Dictators The Equatorial Guinean president Macias Nguema once initiated a cabinet reshuffle by clubbing his foreign minister to death. Idi Amin entertained his fellow African presidents by demonstrating how to suffocate someone with a handkerchief. In 1956 Chairman Mao's Sports Minister recognized a new track-and-field event, the hand-grenade throw. Adolf Hitler tried to cure his chronic flatulence by drinking machine-gun oil. In a single day in December 1938 'Uncle Joe' Stalin signed 3,182 death warrants. The Little Book of Loony Dictators charts the grisly,...