Mao: The Man Who Made China by Philip Short

Mao: The Man Who Made China

Philip Short

864 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustf...

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