Complex sentence: In "The New York Times", Nicholas Kristof referred to the book as a "magisterial work", stating that it did a better job demonstrating that Mao was a "catastrophic ruler" than anything else written to date.
Split into simpler sentences: In "The New York Times", Nicholas Kristof referred to the book as a "magisterial work". Kristof said that it did a better job demonstrating that Mao was a "catastrophic ruler" than anything else written to date.