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Mao, November 2006
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Mao, November 2006
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The Unknown Story
Anchor
November 2006
On Sale: November 14, 2006
864 pages
ISBN: 0679746323
EAN: 9780679746324
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Non-Fiction Biography
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every
written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of
research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle
in China who have never talked before — and with virtually
everyone outside China who had significant dealings with
him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth
of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he
was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and
intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s,
ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese
occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned, and
blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in
1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing
this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the
greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million
Chinese perished under Mao’s rule — in peacetime.
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