How to grab power as a hypocrite, recklessly. The commentary reveals the authors spent many years researching and talking to witnesses. However the portrait of Mao is pervasively one of incompetence, which does not explain how he could influence events as he did.
This text is a krass, and inundating account of 70 million people dying in peace time. Colossal ignorance and misgovernment are simply mind boggling.

I enjoyed Jung Chang's autobiographical book wild swans. This one was much more laborious to finish. However I come away knowing mich more about the 20th century and it's players.