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

3.0

An overview of Putin's life and career up through around 2010, when the book ends on a note of hope for the Russian people. (Dashed, of course.) Because Gessen writes a lot about daily life as she lived it in Russia, this reads as an on-the-ground account of life in Russia more than as a traditional biography.