When America First Met China

When America First Met ChinaBrilliantly illuminating one of the least understood areas of American history, best selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs,

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The son of a pioneering historian―and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right―Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography

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