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The Man With out a Face is the chilling accounts of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, within an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once again a hazard to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and ever more unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like the perfect choice for the oligarchy to condition according to its own designs. Instantly the guy who possessed stood in the shadows, fantasizing of ruling the earth, was a general public number, and his attractiveness soared. Russia and an infatuated Western were motivated to see the progressive leader with their dreams, even while he seized control of the media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or even to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, focusing ability in the hands of his cronies. Being a journalist surviving in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this background firsthand, and then for The Man With out a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her accounts of how a faceless man maneuvered his way into complete - and absolutely corrupt - ability has the makings of your common of narrative nonfiction.
