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Manson: The Life And Times Of Charles Manson
by Jeff GuinnAfter more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us. One of the most notorious criminals in American history, Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Now, drawing on new information, bestselling author Jeff Guinn tells the definitive story of how this ordinary delinquent became a murderer. Manson helps us understand what obsessed him and, most terrifying of all, how he managed to persuade others to kill. Guinn interviewed Manson's sister and cousin, neither of whom has ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members of the Manson Family have provided new information about Manson's life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person on the property was spared. There are even photographs of Manson's childhood and youth that have never previously been seen outside private family albums. Putting Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the Sixties, Guinn shows how Manson represented the dark side of a generation. He came to Los Angeles hoping to get a recording contract, and the murders were directly related to his musical ambitions, although he cloaked them in a bizarre race-war theory. He was, in the words of one person who knew him, just like many other rock star wannabes-except that he was a killer.
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
by Jeff GuinnThe New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: &“A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative…four stars&” (People).More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that author Jeff Guinn traces back to Manson’s childhood. Guinn interviewed Manson’s sister and cousin, neither of whom had ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members of the Manson family have provided new information about Manson’s life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person near the scene of the crime was spared. Manson puts the killer in the context of the turbulent late sixties, an era of race riots and street protests when authority in all its forms was under siege. Guinn shows us how Manson created and refined his message to fit the times, persuading confused young women (and a few men) that he had the solutions to their problems. At the same time he used them to pursue his long-standing musical ambitions. His frustrated ambitions, combined with his bizarre race-war obsession, would have lethal consequences. Guinn’s book is a “tour de force of a biography…Manson stands as a definitive work: important for students of criminology, human behavior, popular culture, music, psychopathology, and sociopathology…and compulsively readable” (Ann Rule, The New York Times Book Review).
Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General
by Major General Mungo Melvin OBEThe first proper biography of Germany's most controversial military hero.The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany, not for Hitler and National Socialism. The polished, urbane von Manstein was no uncouth Nazi. He persuaded the British writer Liddell Hart to assist in organising his defence during his war crimes trial at Hamburg in 1949. Sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment, he was released after three and then advised the West German government in raising its new army in the 1950s.Manstein was the mastermind who created the plan for the 1940 blitzkrieg that overran France in just six weeks. He played a key role in the invasion of Russia and conquered the Crimea, but failed to rescue the doomed Sixth Army at Stalingrad, his most controversial campaign. Three months after the inevitable failure there, he inflicted a massive defeat on the Red Army at Kharkov in a brilliantly designed counter-attack: a battle that has been studied in military academies ever since.Major-General Mungo Melvin speaks good German and knows Germany well. He has been assisted by the Manstein family, has delved deeply into the military archives and studied many of Manstein's battlefields close at hand. His book is much more than a biography of an extraordinary soldier: it describes the dilemmas encountered on operations and highlights the enduring tensions between senior military commanders and their political leaders in the prosecution of strategy.In Germany today, Manstein has become a symbol of the moral corruption of the Wehrmacht, whose commanders' actions enabled Hitler to prosecute a devastating war of conquest and perpetrate the Holocaust. This book reveals the true story of Hitler and his greatest general.
Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General
by Mungo MelvinThe first proper biography of Germany's most controversial military hero.The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany, not for Hitler and National Socialism. The polished, urbane von Manstein was no uncouth Nazi. He persuaded the British writer Liddell Hart to assist in organising his defence during his war crimes trial at Hamburg in 1949. Sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment, he was released after three and then advised the West German government in raising its new army in the 1950s.Manstein was the mastermind who created the plan for the 1940 blitzkrieg that overran France in just six weeks. He played a key role in the invasion of Russia and conquered the Crimea, but failed to rescue the doomed Sixth Army at Stalingrad, his most controversial campaign. Three months after the inevitable failure there, he inflicted a massive defeat on the Red Army at Kharkov in a brilliantly designed counter-attack: a battle that has been studied in military academies ever since.Major-General Mungo Melvin speaks good German and knows Germany well. He has been assisted by the Manstein family, has delved deeply into the military archives and studied many of Manstein's battlefields close at hand. His book is much more than a biography of an extraordinary soldier: it describes the dilemmas encountered on operations and highlights the enduring tensions between senior military commanders and their political leaders in the prosecution of strategy.In Germany today, Manstein has become a symbol of the moral corruption of the Wehrmacht, whose commanders' actions enabled Hitler to prosecute a devastating war of conquest and perpetrate the Holocaust. This book reveals the true story of Hitler and his greatest general.
Manu. El cielo con las manos: Edición ampliada y actualizada
by Daniel FrescóRelato apasionante y exhaustivo, pleno de anécdotas que revela aspectos desconocidos de Ginóbili: la vocación casi genética por el básquet, la obsesión por crecer y la audacia por alcanzar un destino para el que se sabía predestinado. La fuerza de voluntad, la decisión inconmovible de triunfar, el talento, la inteligencia y una rara habilidad para llegar al lugar indicado en el momento justo confluyeron para dar forma al destino singular de Emanuel Ginóbili, el más grande jugador de básquet de la Argentina de todos los tiempos y uno de los mejores del mundo. El escritor y periodista Daniel Frescó reconstruye esa vida única mediante una minuciosa investigación que incluye testimonios de familiares, amigos y compañeros, desde la llegada de su bisabuelo a Bahía Blanca, la integración y desarrollo de su familia en la ciudad, y su infancia hasta la consagración en el básquet mundial con la obtención de la medalla de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Grecia y cuatro anillos de la NBA. El resultado de esta investigación demuestra que la forja de una personalidad como la de Manu no es producto del azar o la buena fortuna sino de la tenacidad individual, de sus orígenes, de un entorno, de un momento y hasta de un país. Su ascenso es el paradigma del argentino que conquista el mundo pero detrás de la imagen pública se esconde una persona humilde, fiel a sus afectos y dispuesto a superar todos los contratiempos a fuerza de inteligencia y constancia. Este relato apasionante y exhaustivo, pleno de anécdotas, revela aspectos desconocidos de Ginóbili: la vocación casi genética por el básquet, la obsesión por crecer y la audacia para alcanzar un objetivo para el cual, de algún modo, se sabía predestinado. Manu. El cielo con las manos, el primer y más completo libro sobre Emanuel Ginóbili, entrega el retrato preciso de una vida y de una carrera cuyos éxitos trascienden los límites del deporte. A trece años de su publicación y cuando Manu transita el retiro de la actividad, se impone una edición definitiva no simplemente para explicar su trayectoria o sus triunfos sino para realizar una proyección de un legado, que ya es tan o más impactante que sus logros, e imaginar el devenir de su futuro. Grandes estrellas y leyendas de la NBA; entrenadores de altísimo nivel; compañeros y excompañeros de los Spurs y la Selección Argentina; los jóvenes basquetbolistas que toman su bandera; atletas que compartieron con él Juegos Olímpicos; referentes nacionales e internacionales de otros deportes y actividades terminan de redondear con valiosísimos conceptos la trascendencia de su figura. Todo ello para completar un libro que abarca generaciones, atraviesa los siglos XX y XXI, y muestra al Manu íntegro que delinea un inmenso legado que perdurará por siempre. «Es un campeón, un gran competidor y uno de los mejores Spurs. Fue muy divertido jugar contra él todos estos años.»LeBron James «Manu será recordado por siempre.»Lionel Messi «Conservó ese fuego interno y ese deseo interior de seguir ganando.»Roger Federer «Su carrera nos dice a todos que se puede.»Jorge Valdano «Es un campeón. Soy fan de Manu. Quisiera saber dónde está esa fuente de la juventud.»Stephen Curry
Manual Not Included
by Hilaria BaldwinIn thoughtful, candid, and often funny vignettes, Hilaria Baldwin—mother, wellness expert, and star of TLC&’s The Baldwins—reveals the highs and lows and unpredictable outtakes from her different and not-so-different life.There&’s no set of instructions when it comes to navigating the challenges life throws at us. However, by sharing our narratives and finding our commonality, we can better deal with what comes our way. After meeting her husband, actor Alec Baldwin, Hilaria found joy and purpose entering the public eye, where she sought to build community and connection with others. She also faced the challenges of the uglier, more toxic parts of the spotlight, living under a warped magnifying glass. Through the ups and downs, Hilaria leaned into wisdom and support offered by others, learning that optimism, kindness, and a sense of humor can put life into perspective. And additionally learning that we are not alone, that we are more alike than we are different. In Manual Not Included, Hilaria writes about the relatable, hard-earned insights she&’s gained from her experiences as an individual, a partner, and a parent—from feeling empowered, to having a fulfilling relationship, to being as good a mother as possible, all while still being a work in progress. Within chapters about love, motherhood, and friendship, Hilaria offers up her candid stories around common themes facing women—from feeling like you&’re too much and also not enough, to grappling with the expectation to be a &“good girl,&” and to striving for unattainable perfection. While there is no one right way to live, by sharing what we&’ve learned along the way, with compassion and without judgment, we can each create our own perfectly imperfect manual.
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy: A Novel
by José SaramagoA disgruntled portrait artist in 1970s Portugal turn to writing in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s debut novel, now available in English translation.Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set in Portugal during the last years of Antonio Salazar’s dictatorship. It tells the story of a struggling artist who is commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist.Disheartened by his squandered talent, the artist soon undergoes a creative and political awakening when he discovers the possibilities of writing. The brilliant juxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nation foreshadows the themes of Saramago’s major works.
Manual para la vida Z
by Ocean VickyOcean Vicky, una de las voces más potentes de la generación Z, nos comparte sus secretos para enfrentarse a la vida con humor y valentía. Cuando nacemos, nos plantan en esto que llaman «la Vida» y nos dicen: «Venga, tira para delante». Lo que no nos dicen es que la Vida está llena de mierdas. Ni que cada Mierda es como un Malo Final. Un bicho feo y terrorífico que pretenden que derrotes. Tú, que no tienes ni pajolera idea de qué va la vaina. Pero no te preocupes, que aquí es donde entro yo. Yo, que sé que pedir ayuda no solo no es un Malo, sino que es muy necesario, te he escrito un manual. Algo así como el de las instrucciones del frigorífico, pero más útil y menos peñazo. Nivel a nivel, te voy a transmitir todo el conocimiento que he podido recabar, las técnicas que he utilizado yo para superar cada final boss. Tú, el o la protagonista del videojuego, eres una persona normal y, como todo el mundo, tienes tus cosillas, pero eso no importa ahora mismo. Porque en este libro te vas a convertir en un/a héroe/heroína: codo con codo, aprenderemos a luchar contra todos los monstruos. Básicamente, te voy a enseñar a pasarte la vida a la manera de la Vicky. Abróchense los cinturones, que empieza el viaje.
Manuel Cardona
by Klaus Ensslin Luis ViñaThis book pays tribute to an extraordinary researcher and personality, Manuel Cardona. He had significant influence in the development of science and inside the scientific community. The book consists of contributions by former collaborators and students of Prof. Manuel Cardona. The short contributions deal with personal encounters with Manuel Cardona describing his extraordinary personality. This includes descriptions of scientific discussions, Manuel Cardona's involvement in social justice and his enormous knowledge about human culture, languages and history.
Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fiction
by Suzanne Jill LevineManuel Puig & The Spider Woman tells the life story of the innovative and flamboyant novelist and playwright himself. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews in her remarkable book, the first biography of the inimitable writer. Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly influenced by Hollywood films of the thirties and forties, his many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie scenarios. When his first two novels were published in the late 1960s, they delighted the public but were dismissed as frivolous by the leftist intellectuals of the Boom; his third novel was banned by the Peronist government for irreverence. His influence was already felt, though-even by writers who had dismissed him-and by the time the film version of Kiss of the Spider Woman became a worldwide hit, he was a renowned literary figure.Puig's way of life was as unconventional as his fiction: he spoke of himself in the female form in Spanish, renamed his friends for his favorite movie stars, referred to his young male devotees as "daughters," and, as a perennial expatriate, lived (often with his mother) everywhere from Rome to Rio de Janeiro.
Manuelita
by Pamela MurrayUna biografía sobre esta gran mujer. Manuelita Sáenz (1797-1856) fue ignorada por la mayoría de los historiadores profesionales, cuyos sesgos de género la relegaron a un papel menor. Chica mala, loca, indecente y hasta ninfómana son algunos de los calificativos que ha usado la historia oficial para definirla. Pero su vida fue la de una mujer decidida, que intervino el mundo militar y de la política, entonces reservado a los hombres. Incómoda para muchos, Manuelita regresa en este dedicado trabajo de investigación que sigue sus pasos en Perú, Ecuador y Colombia. En su brillante biografía, Murray presenta a Manuelita como una de las más grandes figuras femeninas del hemisferio, precursora de una nueva revolución en América Latina: la emancipación e igualdad de las mujeres.
Many Are the Crimes
by Ellen SchreckerIt all seems like so much ancient history -- the "red scare", black lists; even Senator Mccarthy. Yet, in truth, the so-called "Mccarthy period" -- during which people were persecuted and investigated for what they thought -- is one of the most shameful periods of our history. In her book, ellen Schrecker takes a hard look at this phenomenon and draws some sobering conclusions. If you love freedom and liberty and feel that all of us need to work to keep it safe -- from the right and the left -- this book is a must read. And, lest you think this is ancient history, think about some of the hysterical sexual abuse trials of the eighties and nineties. From whence will the next danger come?
Many Faces, One Voice: Secrets from The Anonymous People
by Bud Mikhitarian Greg WilliamsMany Faces, One Voice is a must-read companion book to the award-winning film The Anonymous People.<P><P> Together with the film, this collection of insights, illuminated by vibrant faces and voices of recovery, takes the reader along a journey of individual growth and, potentially, to world change.A vital record of the lives and testimony of brave people who have come out of the shadows of anonymity to fight stigma and discrimination--people who now publicly advocate for the 23 million Americans suffering with addiction. Their inspiring stories, told in intimate detail, are essential to understanding the success, the hope, and the power of recovery.Bud Mikhitarian is an award-winning filmmaker and the producer of The Anonymous People film.Greg Williams is the director of The Anonymous People.
Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System
by Rosemary Radford RuetherIn telling the story of her son's thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, the author lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout the history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by "idealistic reformers" and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. She asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness "if we really cared."
Many Hills yet to Climb: Memoirs of an Armenian Deportee
by John MinassianVictims of tragedies seldom are able to tell of their experiences objectively and without bitterness. It is usually left to others to interpret—and fictionalize—such events. Many Hills Yet to Climb is an exception because its author is an exceptional man. As a young man coming of age, John Minassian lived through the Armenian genocide from 1895 through 1915, which even today the Turkish government denies ever occurred. Now, nearly a century later, Minassian describes his experiences—the destruction of his home, the loss and scattering of family and friends, the bitter enmity between two cultures—in a unique memoir. He does not attempt to give a global significance to the events, but rather a human document that lets us see things as a perceptive and sensitive teenage boy saw them at the turn of the twentieth century. JOHN MINASSIAN was born in 1895 of Armenian parents in Sivas, in central Turkey. He started school with the American missionaries in Sivas and finished his grammar school education in 1908 in Gurun. In 1913 he attended the American Teachers College in Sivas. His studies ended in 1914 with the outbreak of the first World War. During the war he was deported, with most Armenians, to Aleppo. Concealing his identity, he fled into the Syrian desert where he worked with Turkish, German, and Indian work crews. After the war, he went to Constantinople, where he worked for the post-war British Army. In 1920, he gained passage to the U.S. in 1920. He lives today with his wife, Mary, in Santa Barbara, California.
Many Lives
by Stephanie BeachamStephanie Beacham is one of the leading actors of her generation. In the course of a career which spans over 40 years, the RADA trained actress has treaded the boards of some of the most prestigious theatres in the world from the National Theatre to Broadway, made countless appearances on television in much loved series such as Tenko, Connie, Bad Girls and Coronation Street and starred in feature films alongside some of the greatest actors of their time such as Marlon Brando and Ava Gardner. But it was in her incarnation as the smouldering super-bitch Sable Colby in the long-running blockbuster soap of eighties Dynasty that Stephanie will perhaps be best remembered. It was a role that would bring the celebrated beauty both worldwide fame and awards and would earn her a fortune. But Stephanie’s life has not always been glamour and glitz – for all the highs, she has had her low moments too as she reveals in this extraordinarily candid but heart-warming memoir. Born with just 40% hearing the young Stephanie would have to overcome her deafness to face the world and make it in a profession where hearing meant everything. She would struggle as a young actress, would go through the pain and the heartache of a divorce, raise her children as a single-parent, as well as overcoming a health scare which nearly killed her in her mid-thirties. And it would be this near death experience that would send Stephanie on what she describes as a ‘spiritual adventure’ to arm her with both the tools and knowledge she believes she needed to propel her through the rest of her life.
Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
by Sophie Lucido JohnsonSophie Lucido Johnson gets a lot of questions when she tells people that she’s polyamorous. Many Love is an intimate look at this often misunderstood practice: its history, its misconceptions, and Sophie’s personal transformation from serial monogamist to proud polyamorist.After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her sexuality, her values, and the versions of love our society accepts and practices. Along the way, she shares what it’s like to play on Tinder side-by-side with your boyfriend, encounter—and surmount—many types of jealousy, learn the power of female friendship, and other amazing things that happened when she stopped looking for “the one.” In a lot of ways, Many Love is Sophie’s love letter to everyone she has ever cared for. Witty, insightful, and complete with illustrations, this debut provides a memorable glimpse into an unconventional life.
Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Brendan GillBiography of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects--an opinion Wright was quick to agree with, objecting only to what he considered the lessening of his place in history implied by the adjective "American." His works--among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum--earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family and the architecture critic for the New Yorker Magazine, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most entertaining account of Wright to date, but also strips away the many masks the architect tirelessly constructed to fascinate and mislead his admirers and detractors. Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and three hundred photographs and drawings, this definitive biography makes Wright, in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest, fairly leap from its pages.
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature
by Daniel Levin BeckerWhat sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau-and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature’s quirkiest movements. An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature’s possibilities, the Oulipo (the French acronym stands for workshop for potential literature) is perhaps best known as the cradle of Georges Perec’s novel A Void, which does not contain the letter e. Drawn to the Oulipo’s mystique, Levin Becker secured a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris. He was eventually offered membership, becoming only the second American to be admitted to the group. From the perspective of a young initiate, the Oulipians and their projects are at once bizarre and utterly compelling. Levin Becker’s love for games, puzzles, and language play is infectious, calling to mind Elif Batuman’s delight in Russian literature in The Possessed. In recent years, the Oulipo has inspired the creation of numerous other collectives: the OuMuPo (a collective of DJs), the OuMaPo (marionette players), the OuBaPo (comic strip artists), the OuFlarfPo (poets who generate poetry with the aid of search engines), and a menagerie of other Ou-X-Pos (workshops for potential something). Levin Becker discusses these and other intriguing developments in this history and personal appreciation of an iconic-and iconoclastic-group.
Many Things At Once
by Veera HiranandaniIn this poignant picture book about family and belonging, the child of a Jewish mother and a South Asian father hears stories about her family history. Sometimes she doesn't feel Jewish enough or South Asian enough, but comes to realize you can feel--and be--many things at once.Based on the author's own family history, here is a moving story about a young girl from two different backgrounds. The girl&’s mother tells her stories about her mother, a Jewish seamstress in Brooklyn, New York. She lived in a tiny two-bedroom apartment and sewed wedding dresses shimmering in satin and lace.Her father tells stories of his mother, the girl&’s other grandmother, who liked to cook bubbling dal on a coal stove in Pakistan. They tell stories about how both sides came to America, and how, eventually, her parents met on a warm summer evening in Poughkeepsie.The girl sometimes feels as if she's the &“only one like me.&” One day, when she spots a butterfly in her yard, she realizes it&’s okay to be different—no two butterflies are alike, after all. It&’s okay to feel alone sometimes, but also happy and proud. It&’s okay to feel-- and be-- many things at once.
Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker
by Hank UmemotoIn 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. Part memoir and part hiker's diary, Manzanar to Mount Whitney gives an intimate, rollicking account of Japanese American life California before and after World War II. As he wanders through the mountains of California's Inland Empire, Umemoto recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm, all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor. And all along, the peak of Mount Whitney casts its shadow, a symbol of freedom, beauty, and resilience.
Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker
by Hank UmemotoThis intimate memoir offers a poignant, at times humorous account of Japanese American life in California before and after WWII.In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. As Umemoto wanders through the mountains of California’s Inland Empire, he recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm—sharing it all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor.
Mao (Routledge Historical Biographies)
by Michael LynchMichael Lynch’s second edition of Mao examines the life of this controversial figure. Opening with a detailed chronology, it delves into Mao’s younger years and tracks his gradual rise to power, with a chapter dedicated to the cult status that surrounded him. Through a wealth of primary and secondary sources and a balanced consideration of the conflicting views that surround Mao’s leadership, this book provides a thorough exploration of Mao’s political and private life. Key features of the second edition include a detailed analysis of the Long March, an account of Sino-Japanese relations and an assessment of Mao’s ongoing legacy. This biography will be essential reading for anyone interested in Mao and the politics of twentieth-century China.
Mao Tse-Tung’s Immortal Contributions
by Bob AvakianMao Tse-Tung's contributions in the field of Marxist philosophy and the problems of the Socialist society are discussed.
Mao Tse-Tung’s Last Great Battle
by Raymond LottaHe proves that true communism is alive, well and as dangerous to oppressors as ever!