"The Real Brains and Boss of the Chinese Government"

"Her eight-month visit to the U.S. in 1943 to raise aid for her homeland would be the envy of any modern-day PR person. She wrote countless articles, addressed both houses of Congress, and wowed crowds at Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall. Her greatest achievement was as a propagandist, persuading Congress and the American public that her husband could deliver a democratic China."

Melanie Kirkpatrick in The Wall Street Journal reviews Hannah Pakula's The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China.