Titles starting with M from Book Grove

In this highly critical biography of China's late premier, husband-and-wife team Jung Chang (who grew up under Mao's rule, and wrote about it in WILD SWANS) and Jon Halliday rank Mao with Hitler and Stalin as one of the 20th century's dictators. Destroying the picture of Mao as a strong but benevolent leader of the people, Chang and Halliday chronicle his rise to power and his long domination of his country through terror. By their count, Mao was responsible for the death of 70 million Chinese. Based on extensive research and interviews with many who served with Mao, the authors present a corrective to the many representations of "Chairman Mao" as either a giant, a visionary, a philosopher of revolutions, a tenacious uniter of his people, a survivor, or the author of the charming "little red book." In this comprehensive biography, Chang and Halliday present new historical documentation of Mao's programs--the Long March, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution--along with his many purges. Their final verdict is that Mao was a power-hungry and ruthless man. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005.