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• ISBN 10: 0307887251
• ISBN 13: 9780307887252
• Author: Peraino

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration’s response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong’s Communist forces in 1949–an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day.   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 Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong’s Communist armies fanned out across mainland China, annihilating the rival troops of America’s one-time ally Chiang Kai-shek and taking control of Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities. As Truman and his aides–including his shrewd, ruthless secretary of state, Dean Acheson–scrambled to formulate a response, they were forced to contend not only with Mao, but also with unrelenting political enemies at home. Over the course of this tumultuous year, Mao would fashion a new revolutionary government in Beijing, laying the foundation for the creation of modern China, while Chiang Kai-shek would flee to the island sanctuary of Taiwan. These events transformed American foreign policy–leading, ultimately, to decades of friction with Communist China, a long-standing U.S. commitment to Taiwan, and the subsequent wars in Korea and Vietnam.   Drawing on Chinese and Russian sources, as well as recently declassified CIA documents, Kevin Peraino tells the story of this remarkable year through the eyes of the key players, including Mao Zedong, President Truman, Secretary of State

Table of contents:

Part I
1: Missimo
2: The Greatest Force
3: The Old Devils
4: Bedbugs
5: The Dean
6: All the Aces
7: Riverdale
Part II
8: Wait, Look, See
9: A New World
10: Heaven and Hell
11: A Vast and Delicate Enterprise
12: Neverland
13: Heat
14: Killing the Tiger
15: The Great Crescent
Part III
16: Firecracker
17: No Devil Shall Escape
18: Dig Up the Dirt
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19: First Lightning
20: Risky Business
21: The Voice
22: Through a Glass, Darkly
23: A Rather Spectacular Triumph
24: A Force So Swift

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