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What must it be like to be the child of a brutal tyrant? Do they tend to follow in father’s footsteps, or turn their back on the family name? To find out more about the lives of dictators’ children, Noiser writer Duncan Barrett spoke to Jay Nordlinger - senior editor of the magazine National Review and author of Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.

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