President Bush has just read Mao, the Unknown Story book by Jung Chang that I blogged about a few weeks ago!
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Jenny Hatch
UPDATE:
New Story at International Herald Tribune
Quote:
“Chang and Halliday said in a telephone interview from Paris on Friday, during a long weekend away from their home in London, that they were “thrilled” that Bush had read the book. Chang, whose “Wild Swans,” a memoir of her family’s oppression under Mao, sold 10 million copies, said she surmised that Bush was drawn to the book because “it’s a very dramatic story about a roller-coaster life.” She also said that since Bush was dealing with the current Chinese leadership, “it’s not surprising that he should want to know from what roots this regime has grown.”
American scholars say that Bush was probably also drawn to the book because it is, in effect, an argument for the president’s second-term agenda of spreading democracy around the world.”
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Jenny Hatch
UPDATE: January 23
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