Mao and his intolerance to criticism

Lives of great men remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
History: His story. The story of man, his struggles, his progresses; his achievements and his downfalls. History is made by the unfolding yarn of time, cutting its way through existence like a glacier piercing its way through mountains. As defined in its simplest terms, it is the record of events in the life of a person, nation or the world. However, history is not only associated with the interrogative expression of 'whe…