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Philip Short
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Philip Short
Philip Short was born in Bristol, England, in and was educated at Sherborne and Queens’ College, Cambridge. He worked for the BBC for 30 years as a foreign correspondent, initially in Central and East Africa and then in Moscow, Beijing, Paris, Tokyo and Washington. He then spent a year teaching comparative politics at the University of Iowa and in was a visiting fellow at the Dickey Center for International Relations at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He lives with his wife and daughter in southern France.
His first book, a life of the Malawi leader, Hastings Banda, was published in The Dragon and the Bear, a comparison between China after Mao and the Soviet Union after Stalin followed in His biography of Mao Zedong, widely regarded as the definitive account of the life of the Chinese leader, was published in Britain in and the United States a year later; it has been translated into a dozen languages, including Chinese and Russian. A revised edition incorporating new archival material, Mao: The Man Who Made China, was published in London in His other books include The History of a Nightmare, a biography of the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot; and A Study in Ambiguity, a life of the French President, François Mitterrand. In , after eight years of research
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Philip Short
Praise for Putin
Magisterial based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources.
Guardian
An exhaustive profile
Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*
Exceptional unlikely to be matched as a study of the man It is readable, judicious, critical but balanced and focused on Putin the person rather than on the Putin regime
The Irish Times
Magisterial based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources.
Guardian
An exhaustive profile
Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*
Exceptional unlikely to be matched as a study of the man It is readable, judicious, critical but balanced and focused on Putin the person rather than on the Putin regime
The Irish Times
Magisterial based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources.
Guardian
An exhaustive profile
Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*
Exceptional unlikely to be matched as a study of the man It is readable, judicious, critical but balanced and focused on Putin the person rather than on the Putin regime
The Irish Times