Kevin Peraino
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compelling year-long narrative of America's response to the fall of Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China in 1949, and Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's rise to power, forever altering the world's geopolitical map."--Provided by publisher.
"In the opening months of 1949, U.S. President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe--"perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered," as the journalist Walter...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A study of the sixteenth president's evolution as a foreign policy leader explores his role in America's rise to a world power, analyzing six distinct episodes that defined his foreign policy stance and enabled him to maintain a careful balance during the war years.
