President Bush has been reading the mammoth, powerful new biography of Mao—Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday—and Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times had something to say about that

National Review, Feb 13, 2006

> President Bush has been reading the mammoth, powerful new biography of Mao--Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday--and Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times had something to say about that. She said that it was no surprise that Bush had been reading this book "given that [it] has been embraced by the right as a searing indictment of Communism." One wonders: Why wouldn't liberals be interested in, or pleased by, a searing indictment of Communism? It's not like they have any truck with Communism, is it? In her general throwing of cold water on this book, Bumiller went on to say that some reviewers have "accused the authors of a moralistic, good-and-evil version of history." Yes, can't have that, can we--not with regard to a genocidal monster.