I haven't read it so I may be full of shit, but it actually sounds like a left-wing version of the hit-piece biography of Mao that came out a few years ago.
--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> There's stuff like this on every page. Every
> paragraph, really. For
> those who don't know, the whole book is a series of
> these disconnected
> bits, but as you go along they weave themselves together.
> All
> meticulously documented in citations and footnotes.
> Amazing book.
> I've got to get me some more Nicholson Baker.
>