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Illuminating. Shocking. Compelling. Harvard Professor Ross Terrill, a friend of Rupert Murdoch, advised Richard Nixon and US Senators and was a prize-winning China expert, whom nobody knew was gay, and for over 40 years kept an intimate and sexually explicit diary. This is the first volume. Ross Terrill was a leading expert on China and the author of several award-winning books which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. His writings were influential in how Americans came to think about China. Henry Kissinger used Terrill's articles about China, published in the Atlantic, to brief President Richard Nixon on his historic visit to China in 1972. While famed newsman Walter Cronkrite was in China covering the event, Ross Terrill was in the New York CBS television studios providing colorful and penetrating commentary. Ross traveled in high circles and was friends with Rupert Murdock, prime ministers, US senators, and the politically powerful and well-connected. He was a well-respected political scientist and historian. However, Ross had a secret. Nobody knew that he was gay and very sexually active, a life he wrote about for over 40 years in a very intimate diary. Breaking the Rules: The Intimate Diary of Ross Terrill is Terrill's frank and raw diary. Often sexually explicit, it sheds light on how this talented and connected man balanced his life between his high-powered connections and his sexual exploits and adventures. The diary and its span of time also show how Ross first struggled with being gay and later embraced it. It reveals changing attitudes about world politics, fame, and gay life. The diary may shock some and entice others. It is a guilty pleasure that allows us to look through a keyhole to see the life of an extraordinary man. Ross was at the forefront of our emerging modern political world. He was in China during Tiananmen Square. The high and mighty sought his opinions, and his writings influenced our political world. He flew high in the spotlight and explored excesses and pleasures in the shadows. Ross Terrill is a man who lived life to its fullest. His diary is an exceptional document and an engaging read.

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A world-renowned China specialist and former Associate in Research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Ross Terrill is the author of more than a dozen books. Raised in rural Australia, he graduated in history and political science from the University of Melbourne in 1962 and served in the Australian Army. He took a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard in 1970, where his thesis on the philosophy of R. H. Tawney was awarded the Sumner Prize and was later published by Harvard University Press as Socialism as Fellowship. While teaching at Harvard on political thought, Chinese politics, and international affairs, Terrill wrote 800,000,000: The Real China, The Future of China: After Mao, Flowers on an Iron Tree: Five Cities of China, and the original edition of Mao, his acclaimed biography of the Chinese leader. As a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly he won the National Magazine Award for Reporting Excellence and the George Polk Memorial Award for Outstanding Magazine Reporting for writings on China. In 1979 he became an American citizen. Terrill is a many-time contributor to the New York Times and other newspapers, including Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Washington Post. In addition to the Atlantic Monthly, he has written for Foreign Affairs, New Republic, National Geographic, World Monitor and other magazines. More recent books he has written include The White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao and The Australians. Terrill has moved within a triangle of academia, journalistic writing, and public life, testifying numerous times before committees of the United States Congress. He has been a special commentator for CBS News, the Today Show, ABC's Nightline, Firing Line and-often from China-on NPR's All Things Considered.Terrill has visited China almost every year for many years and within China his Mao in Chinese translation has sold more than 1.5 million copies. He spent the month of June, 1989 in Beijing, including the climactic night of June 3-4 in Tiananmen Square. Recently, he has been visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Monash University in Australia. Terrill's The New Chinese Empire won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2020, he published his memoir, From Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square.Terrill lives in Boston. Philip Gambone has been writing and publishing fiction and nonfiction since the 1980s. His five books include a collection of short stories, a novel, a book of interviews with gay fiction writers, and a collection of profiles of prominent LGBTQ Americans. His most recent book, As Far As I Can Tell: Finding My Father in World War II (Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2020), is a memoir about a gay son tracing the route his father made across Europe during that war. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Boston Globe.

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