MaoPhilip ShortLabel: Bloomsbury AcademicDescription: 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 distrustful leader and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now four decades after Mao's death acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid uncompromising and unflinching Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda - his family his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was and the monster he became.
