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In Mao Tse-tung, Stuart Schram creates a picture of Mao as a man rather than as a leader. He relives the life of Mao and presents how Mao became the leader and what made the man, "Mao". John Fairbank suggests that Schram’s biography is "the most perceptive, judicious, and interesting full-length biography of Chairman Mao yet available” (Book Week, 64: 41). The reason he gives this tribute to Schram is because overcoming the biases the writer has created a story of a man of passion who integrates his own