The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng Harrison E. Salisbury

This definitive work, based on 20 years of first-hand research and first-person interviews conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winner Salisbury, follows the lives of Mao and Deng from their rural childhood to their triumphant establishment of the People's Republic of China. "Reads as much like popular fiction as a work of history."--Orville Schell, The New York Times.