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I stopped reading at about pg 300 as I began to suspect that what I was reading was more of a screed than a biography. While I have no doubt that Mao was a murdering, incompetent butcher - it's hardly a debatable observation and was of course a well-known fact before this book came along - I just got the feeling that there was a pseudo-religious zeal in these authors' portrayal of everything Mao ever did as evil, corrupt, ineffective at best and disastrous more often than not. They get their foot on Mao's throat on Page 1 and don't let up. Now while he might deserve it, I just never got the sense that what the authors were saying was necessarily totally accurate. And it's a very long book to read if you have doubts about the authors' intent and factual honesty.