Engineers of Human SoulsFour writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. Engineers of Human Souls is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writersonce the faithful servants of authorityinto figures of political consequence. Maurice Barres, who first wielded the politics of identity. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's