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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998
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The Last King of Scotland: With a title like this you would not immediately think that this was a novel about Idi Amin. I thought the best thing to do was to juxtapose these two incongruous elements on the cover as a prelude to the bizarre story told within.