Title: The Big Green Book
Review: This poorly written book presents Mao as a ruthless imbecile who became the monstrous ruler of around one billion people. Ruthless and monstrous he may have been, but how an imbecile could have achieved this is beyond me.That Mao was rather a bad man is not really news. One redeeming feature of Jung Chang's book is that it might lead readers to better, and less vitriolic accounts of this great tyrants life. There are many better books on the subject. Ross Terrill's biographies of Mao, and his wife Jiang Qing, "The White Boned Demon" are both quite good. Also highly recommended are "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Nien Cheng, and "The Private Life of Chairman Mao", by Li Zhi-Sui.Whether or not any of these books will have a lasting or positive effect upon humanity is highly unlikely as I think there will always be populations subject to rule of despots. It's the nature of life. It has always happened, and is happening right now in many parts of the world.
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