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A father's son at the head of the table
Kurt Shillinger
Managing Editor
Sometimes the best way to see the forest is聽through the trees. Biographer Robert Caro, for example, has made a lifelong study of political power through the singular figures of urban planner Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. Author and American University professor Joseph Torigian has now taken a similar approach to understanding one of the most complex and shrouded actors in global power. His new study of Xi Jinping鈥檚 father, he tells our Beijing Bureau Chief Ann Scott Tyson, sheds light on both the Chinese Communist Party and the man at its helm.
