How Biography Of Mao offers Insight Into Bush

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link:www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/01/22/news/letter.php|International Herald-Tribune]

When President George W. Bush met with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in the Oval Office this month, the talk turned to Merkel's childhood under Communism, then wandered into the subject of Bush's latest bedtime reading: "Mao: The Unknown Story," an 814-page biography that presents the Chinese dictator as another Hitler or Stalin.

Participants in the meeting say that Bush spoke glowingly of the book, a 10-year project by Jung Chang, the author of the hugely successful memoir "Wild Swans," which has sold 10 million copies worldwide, and her husband, John Halliday, a British historian. "Mao" has been at the top of the best-seller lists in Britain and Germany and was published to mixed reviews late last year in the United States.

The book might at first seem an odd choice for Bush, whose taste in biography, like that of other U.S. presidents, runs to previous occupants of the Oval Office. But it is not so surprising given that "Mao: The Unknown Story" has been embraced by the right as a searing indictment of Communism....

[Fovea]

1. It is well known

that Chairman Mao invented the 'clenus.'

[madrchsod]

2. after reading the reveiws

of this book i think bush may not be reading this book and if he is he`s just reading the "naughty bits".

[Benhurst]

3. Bush's bedtime reading? Does this mean

"Mao: The Unknown Story" has already been made into a Classic Comic?

[SharonAnn]

4. Bush's taste in biography??? Since when does he read???