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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Of course it is history: it elegantly fooled Partisan Review
I read this book in the seventies. Its depiction of Mao was accurate and fascinating as to Mao's almost hallucinatory erudition. Of course it left out his brutal, autocratic side; it Caesarized him. I do not regard this as a flaw. Tuten was not trying to sell Mao or Maoism, but to open a magic door into his complex, vivid world. The interview portion was excellent; it...
Published on March 25, 2003 by James Drummond
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22 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
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This is a play, not a history.
This is not about CHina, any more than Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about Virginia Woolf. For info on Mao and the Long March, see Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China" or Harrison Salisbury's "The Long March."
Published on August 27, 1998
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Of course it is history: it elegantly fooled Partisan Review,
By James Drummond (Norman, OK USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (Paperback)
I read this book in the seventies. Its depiction of Mao was accurate and fascinating as to Mao's almost hallucinatory erudition. Of course it left out his brutal, autocratic side; it Caesarized him. I do not regard this as a flaw. Tuten was not trying to sell Mao or Maoism, but to open a magic door into his complex, vivid world. The interview portion was excellent; it fooled the Partisan review, which was quite miffed when it could not publish it as a true interview. It is a history of a facet of Mao's imagination: he had an amazing capacity to realize what he could imagine. Tuten makes this clear in Western terms, doing us all a service. His writing is imaginative and vital, and when you read the book you cannot imagine being elsewhere.
22 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This is a play, not a history.,
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This review is from: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (Paperback)
This is not about CHina, any more than Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about Virginia Woolf. For info on Mao and the Long March, see Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China" or Harrison Salisbury's "The Long March."
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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March by Frederic Tuten (Paperback - Feb. 1997)
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