Download or read book Mao's Road to Power written by Stuart Schram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1939 Mao Zedong was a leader in the Chinese Communist Party through his political acumen, his organizing energy, and his executive ability. At the same time, his abilities to shift register, to maintain a sense of the whole and also of the particular, and to absorb seemingly contradictory realities in the social, political and military arenas he