"L: A Novel History deserves to take its place among the great dystopias -- 1984, Atlas Shrugged, We, and The Trial."
Theodore Dalyrmple, Contributing Editor, The City / Contributor, The Wall Street Journal

"An election-year must-read."
Kirkus Reviews

"People may find the idea of a politician being an artist very odd. However, in the fin de siècle atmosphere of Central and Eastern European, the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk influenced the most famous dictators of our era, like the young student Hitler, trying to enter the art academy, passionately listening to Wagner's operas, then making his famous exhibition of Entartete Kunst (degenerate Art), where he performed the idea of the Holocaust in the field of fine arts. A former theologian, Stalin took special pleasure in torturing his artists, giving them stronger and stronger rules how to draw and write, even by setting the topics - the famous example being the Shostakovich opera about Stalin's youth, related to the death of all Stalin's school comrades and teachers.

"Dictators are artists who give the people beautiful images of the future they want to create, where they are themselves the model of compassion and moral beauty that suffers when they have to follow the necessary steps to present the new order.

"Penetrating as the book is as a study of a dictator’s mind, it is also very witty. There are situations reminiscent of the British TV series Yes Prime Minister, but combined with the cruelty of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction."
Dr. Josef Zaruba-Pfeffermann, Institute of Art History, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

"Everyone sitting in a democracy should read this. It is not only a cautionary tale, but a horror story about how one man in power can change a country in 14 months from a democracy to Hell on Earth. The suffering was so bad and so many died, fled the country or were eaten, that England would never have been the same had this actually happened. If you think a Zombie threat is bad, trying reading this instead – this will give you nightmares you never dreamed possible. This is worse than the Zombie Apocalypse times three. The brainchild of one man, waiting to die for reasons only he can dream of, while everyone else suffers for his whims. It's not only a sin, this man is worse than Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and Genghis Khan, and all those of their kind combined. One man! Read it. You must know what you face because it could happen in the future, so you can watch for the signs and do the right things, so it won't happen in our lifetimes, or the lifetimes of our children if we teach them what to look for and what to listen for as well. Think of it as preparedness training. If it were only content that I was describing or the idea that the author was going for, this would be a five star book. The only problem is the packaging is a little tarnished. I still suggest you go out and buy it and read it. It is an absolute must that everyone in a democracy should all know about what could happen. Read this book today and find out! "
Melinda F. Le Baron, mbiblio.com