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| | Mao Ze Dong: Methods of the Great Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | From Short, we learn that Mao never brushed his teeth, preferring a daily mouthwash of tea, and that he had to be persuaded, after the Communist victory in 1949, to give up using his garden in the Forbidden City for an open-air toilet. |
 | | Mao, he says, did not set out to achieve the ''physical extermination of all who stood in his way,'' like Stalin, or ''to extirpate in the gas chambers an entire racial group,'' like Hitler, but belonged to ''a different category'' because his obsession was with remolding an entire people. |
 | | As the authors show, Mao was a political and military genius who towered over his contemporaries, remade the most populous nation on earth, and placed it, after centuries of humiliation, on the path to modernity. |
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