Philip Short is the author of acclaimed biographies of Pol Pot, Mao Zedong and Fran ois Mitterrand. He worked for ten years as the BBC's Paris correspondent and lives in France.
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*
[A] revealing and compellingly granular biography
*Times Literary Supplement*
Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas,
power and the threat he has come to pose to world peace should read
this outstanding biography
*Ian Kershaw*
A masterly portrait of one of the most calculating and impenetrable
individuals on the world stage
*Irish Independent*
As a chronicle of Putin's public doings, the book is near
faultless... [with] some sharply worded insights
*The Times*
A perfect mirror to its subject... This new biography should be
compulsory reading
*Observer*
Philip Short's timely new biography ... provides a comprehensive,
extensively researched account of Putin's life, in the process
debunking some of the more tenacious clichés about the Russian
leader
*New Statesman*
Short brings to this project extensive research and fluid prose.
This book is comprehensive in the best sense, a detailed and
meticulous chronicle of Putin's life
*Literary Review*
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