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The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia by James Palmer, Basic Books, 2009, $26.95. People have long had a perverse fascination with leaders who breach the bounds of sanity in the pursuit of power, and the subject of James Palmer’s new book, The Bloody …
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