Only Nixon - His Trip to China Revisited and Restudied

Informationen zum Autor Professor James C. Humes, a former White House speechwriter and State Department planner under Nixon, is currently a fellow at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. His biography of Churchill, nominated for a Pulitzer, won the Athenaeum Award. He has written thirty-two books, including Nixon's Ten Commandments of Leadership and Negotiation and Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter. Humes, who was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Center for International Scholars at the Smithsonian, has lectured on American government in over thirty universities in Asia and Latin America on behalf of the U.S. State Department. Jarvis D. Ryals, M.D., is board certified in both psychiatry and neurology, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He is a community leader in medicine and public health. While pursuing his interest in history, he has traveled widely to interview government leaders, including a former president and prime minister. Klappentext This book shares the observations made in 1998 by Chinese Foreign Service experts, who had planned meetings of President Nixon with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, during interviews by the authors and Edward Nixon, the President's brother. Zusammenfassung This book shares the observations made in 1998 by Chinese Foreign Service experts! who had planned meetings of President Nixon with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai! during interviews by the authors and Edward Nixon! the President's brother. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 I. A Nixon Returns to China in 1998 Chapter 4 II. Nixon has Second Thoughs on Chiang Kai-Shek Chapter 5 III. Convulsion in China Chapter 6 IV. Nixon Returns to the World Arena Chapter 7 V. Mao: A Lion in Winter Chapter 8 VI. The Handshake of History Chapter 9 VII. "Only a Republican President" Chapter 10 Bibliography

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• Authors: James Humes, James C Humes, James C. Humes, James C./ Ryals Humes, Humes James C., Jarvis D Ryals, Jarvis D. Ryals, Ryals Jarvis D.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9780761847380
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4738-0
• No. of pages: 79
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Political leaders & leadership, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Political leaders and leadership