Zachary S. MaysTwo books.
Two books.
One recurring
pattern.
The machinery that produces catastrophic leaders is entirely human. In several cases, variations of it are running somewhere right now.
Analytical Non-Fiction
How We Got Here
The Formation of a Population Built Not to Know
Fifty years of deliberate institutional architecture produced a population psychologically primed for authoritarian formation. The dataset shows what it built.
Forthcoming
Assholes in History
A Comprehensive Survey of Catastrophic Leadership
Twenty-four of history's most spectacularly awful rulers — not as monsters, but as products. The impulse is universal. The outcome is not.