A review by templecat2
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen

4.0

More like a 4.5. There were times I lost the thread regarding the order and reasons behind various contextual events (Masha Gessen is a journalist and not a historian), but it was *hugely* insightful both into how the Russian government came to and currently works and the exact ways in which the U.S. "president" is emulating Putin (to varying degrees of success).