Survival of Fattest in World of Tyrants

Daily MailAugust 08, 2007

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ANDREW ROBERTS' thesis that fat people make better rulers than lean, hungry ones, is untenable. In fact, his two examples disprove it.

Hermann Goering is one (though, to be fair, his obesity was due to a morphine addiction that followed a groin injury in the Munich Putsch).

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Survival of Fattest in World of Tyrants

The other is Boris Yeltsin.

There are many other examples.

How about Idi Amin? Cuddly and lovable? I don't think so. Stalin was hardly anorexic, and you don't get t...

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