By 1939 Mao Zedong was a leader in the Chinese Communist Party through his political acumen, his organizing energy, and his executive ability. At the same time, his abilities to shift register, to mai
When we last saw Mao, he was in the middle of the Long March, threatened with defeat by Chiang Kaishek, who had vowed to exterminate the Communist bandits. Battlefield telegrams, letters, dispatches,
