James C. Humes, Jarvis D. Ryals

'Only Nixon' (eBook, PDF)

His Trip to China Revisited and Restudied

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China. While retracing Nixon's steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president's meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These protégés of Chou En-lai ended their diplomatic careers as envoys in Anglophone nations such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. During interviews with Humes, Ryals, and Edward Nixon, these experts shared their observations about the forces, such as the Gang of Four, who were plotting to prevent the Nixon Trip, as well as why, at the time, Mao was amendable to restoring ties with America despite the ongoing Cultural Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761884989
• Artikelnr.: 75136692

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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