Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
by Norman Davies · 27 Sep 2011
. 46–64. 62. Estonia, 1940–1945, p. 1031. 63. Robert Litwak, Détente: American Foreign Policy, 1969–76 (Cambridge, 1986). 64. Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World (New York, 2006). 65. Leonard Shapiro, The Government and Politics of the Soviet Union (London, 1970); Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism
The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
by Paige McClanahan · 17 Jun 2024 · 206pp · 78,882 words
of frozen relations between the powers that would dominate geopolitics over the next half century. Six years after that widely televised trip—which Nixon called “the week that changed the world”—China would open its borders to international tourists for the first time since 1949. Closer to home for Tony and Maureen, the Iron Curtain remained
Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris · 11 Oct 2010 · 1,152pp · 266,246 words
the Soviets in the Cold War, and in 1972, after much back-channel diplomacy, he flew to Beijing and shook Mao’s hand. “This was the week that changed the world,” Nixon crowed, and in some ways he was right. The prospect of a Washington-Beijing axis terrified Brezhnev so much that within three months of
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Think Like a Freak
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 11 May 2014 · 240pp · 65,363 words
Chinese Ping-Pong team to visit the United States and, more substantially, Nixon’s historic trip to China. It was, as Nixon later called it, “the week that changed the world.” Would all this have happened without the Ping-Pong diplomacy that so coyly shifted the us-versus-them framework? Perhaps. But Premier Zhou for one
May We Be Forgiven
by A. M. Homes · 14 Jun 2012
me,” she says, giving the goods a hard pump. “I am your future.” Monday’s class was described in my syllabus as “Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World.” The line is a direct quote from the great man himself, describing his 1972 trip to China. The trip was actually an eight-day, carefully
China: A History
by John Keay · 5 Oct 2009
invited the People’s Republic to replace the Republic (ie, Taiwan) as China’s representative. Then in February 1972 came what President Nixon would call ‘the week that changed the world’. His historic visit included a trip to the Great Wall and a meeting with the Chairman. Neither side gave much ground on Taiwan, but Beijing
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy · 14 Jul 2014 · 473pp · 140,480 words
Chairman Mao Tse-tung in 1972, thawing relations with the People’s Republic of China for the first time in twenty-five years. “This was the week that changed the world,” Nixon declared after leaving behind an American redwood sapling as a symbol of mutual peace, prosperity, and international trade. Spilman had more immediate concerns than
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
by Robert B. Zoellick · 3 Aug 2020
. Johnson’s war turned out to be the opposite of practical—it descended into senseless sacrifice. CHAPTER 15 Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger American Realpolitik The Week That Changed the World On February 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon left Andrews Air Force Base for the first leg of his long trip to China. As Air Force
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a funny little man. He is shuddering all over with nerves every time he comes to see me.”13 Nixon concluded that his visit “was the week that changed the world.”14 He was right. Indeed, the turn he began still shakes the world. People around the globe will continue to ask whether the two great
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) The crisis manager perceives Berlin as an asset. JFK in Berlin, June 26, 1963. (32) Vietnam: learning from defeat. LBJ and McNamara, n.d. (33) “The week that changed the world.” Nixon shakes hands with Mao, February 21, 1972. (34) Realpolitik and triangular diplomacy. Henry Kissinger shakes hands with Mao in Beijing, 1973. (35) Setting out
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–June 1965, Doc. 134. 62. Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster, 179. Chapter 15. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: American Realpolitik 1. Margaret MacMillan, Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2007), 7-8. 2. MacMillan, Nixon in China, 20. For “like going to the moon,” see “An Interview with the President: ‘The
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by Max Boot · 9 Jan 2018 · 972pp · 259,764 words
Iron Heel. New York: Regent Press, 1908. Lovell, Stanley P. Of Spies and Stratagems. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. MacMillan, Margaret. Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World. New York: Penguin, 2006. Manchester, William. The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963. New York: Little, Brown, 2013. Marlantes, Karl. Matterhorn: A
Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
by Norman Davies · 30 Sep 2009 · 1,309pp · 300,991 words
. 46–64. 62. Estonia, 1940–1945, p. 1031. 63. Robert Litwak, Détente: American Foreign Policy, 1969–76 (Cambridge, 1986). 64. Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World (New York, 2006). 65. Leonard Shapiro, The Government and Politics of the Soviet Union (London, 1970); Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990
by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds · 24 Aug 2016 · 627pp · 127,613 words