This was a really interesting book! Dr. Li wrote much of this from his own memory (many of his journals were burned during the Cultural Revolution), so I was flummoxed as to how he remembered so much. I guess that's what happens when you spend 22+ years as the personal doctor to Mao Zedong. The book reveals a wide range of rather scintillating details about Mao's personal life, but it also does a good job of chronicling Mao's health and behavior in relation to political events across China throughout the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Mao's legacy is very much mixed, and depending on how you view things, he could be responsible for the deaths of more than 30 million people. His leadership certainly left an impact, though.
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