This book covers topics including “A Mind as Talented as the Heavens, a Strategist as Deep as the Sea: Li Si”; “From Granary Rats to the Kingly Way”; “Speaking Up in the Palace, Racing Through the Qin Capital”; “A Single Memorial Urges the King of Qin to Unify All Under Heaven in Little More Than Twenty Years”; “Alliance with Distant States, Attack Nearby Ones: The First Plan to Destroy Han”; “Arguing Against Enfeoffment and Setting Out a Founding Plan”; “The Realm Is Unified: Ordered to Establish Laws and Institutions”; “Burning Books and Burying Scholars: Right or Wrong?”; “A Deadly Plot, All to Carry His Seal Home”;
“Promoting the Art of Censure and Reaching a Dead End”; “He Rose in the Qin Capital and Fell in the Qin Capital”; and “Crowned with Merit Among All His Ministers, His Fame Endures for Ages: Xiao He,” among others.
