Mao Zedong
New York: A Lipper/Viking Book, 1999. Hardcover. 12mo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #003769
A Penguin Life. Eighth printing. Quarter cream cloth and pictorial black and red paper boards, red lettering to spine. Dust jacket has cutout window. xv, [5], 188 p.p. Bumping to spine ends. Spine tilted. Dust jacket sunned at spine, bumped at spine head. From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. In this sharply drawn and insightful account, Jonathan Spence, award-winning historian and author of acclaimed books about both the old and new China, brings to life this modern day emperor and the tumultuous era that he did so much to shape.
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