Taylor is definitely pro-Chiang: however, most of the anti-Chiang books are written in a time long before and were heavily influenced by works such as Red Star over China, which is an accurate but heavily romanticized view of the early Chinese Communist Party. Chiang also tainted a lot of the historiography of his own history by essentially subjecting the people that had escaped to Taiwan in a thoroughly anti-communist and pro-Chiang education.

That being said, I tend to agree with Taylor's assessment. Even the Chinese Communists do not contend that Chiang himself was morally or fiscally corrupt-while the administration certainly was, Chiang was extremely frugal with his own living. He was ultimately really motivated by a massive distaste of foreign influence in China, British, Soviet, Japanese, and later American (as with Stilwell), so I have come to similar conclusions as Taylor as to Chiang's motivations.