{"product_id":"9781786720153","title":"Mao: The Man Who Made China","description":"One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao’s death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid, uncompromising and unflinching, Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda - his family, his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was, and the monster he became.","brand":"I.B.Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150173946096,"sku":"9781786720153","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786720153_p0.jpg?v=1763729909","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786720153","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}