What Becomes of Dictators' Children?

Do dictators have a specific effect the sort of adults their children become. How much of a role does nature play versus nuture. That's a question Jay Nordlinger has been asking himself. He's the senior editor of the National Review magazine in the US and also the author of the just published book : "Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators".

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(Photo: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who defected to the United States in 1967 and became a vocal critic of the Soviet Union. Credit: AFP)