Augusto Pinochet, the 20th-century dictator who left his mark on modern Chile, also left behind an exquisite library of 50,000 volumes. “General Pinochet was rarely admired for his intellect,” as a story in today’s New York Times allows—he once confused Washington State with Washington, D.C.—and it may have been “an intense inferiority complex” that drove him to assemble his erudite collection. Still, the books offer some insight into the man. His laden shelves “contained almost no poetry or fiction, an exception being “The Rigor of the Bugle,” a novel about Chilean military life written in the 19th century by Arturo Givovich,” according to the Times. Read more…
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