Book description
Rogues’ Gallery presents the epic of America’s struggles with the foreign foes who challenged it to greatness or lured it toward possible disaster. Here are finely drawn portraits of such mythic figures as
* George III, America’s last king and first national enemy, an eccentric gentleman whom Tom Paine denounced as "the royal brute of Britain"
* Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who six years after his vitory at the Alamo conducted a huge funeral in Mexico City to honor his amputated leg
* Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, George III’s great-great-grandson, who never danced with women but would waltz at formal dinners with his officers
* Hideki Tojo, a diehard militarist, who after Hiroshima urged the Japanese people to live out their lives in caves rather than capitulate to the United States
* Fidel Castro, who, as a youthful guerilla leader in the mountains of Cuba, liked to impress American visitors with his knowledge of baseball trivia
* Saddam Hussein, the self-described "Knight of the Arab Nation", who once aimed to build an Islamic empire that would destroy Israel and stretch from Iraq to Morocco
