‘Mao Zedong: A life’ is just another edition of Penguin Books to cover the lives and legacies of the most influential and
prominent personalities of the world, such as Winston Churchill and Napoleon Bonaparte.
The author has written many books on the topics related on China, its people and politics and this is his another attempt to narrate the life and the achievements of a great leader came across the great wall of China.
The size of the
biography is only around five by three inches and it is considered as tiny by compare it to the sizes of the traditional books. Despite of being a short book, the biography covered the life of ‘Mao’ in comprehensively. This is for those readers, who want to know more about the mysteric and disciplined life of ‘Chairman Mao’. The style of narrating by the historian makes impossible for anyone to put the book down without completing it in a single attempt.
In its true spirit, the biography is appreciating the Mao’s efforts to bring a socio politics
revolution in China but raising a finger about the failure of the Chairman by not bring a ‘Cultural Revolution’ as well. The work is also covering the early life of Chairman in a unique style of narration. Nearly more than half pages of the biography are devoted to the life of the leader before the declaration and formation of People’s Republic of China.
A very informative biography with a touch of conciseness would be a good increment for a private and public libraries and also for those people who wants to achieve political fame in history.