{"product_id":"about-face-isbn-9780679768616","title":"About Face","description":"\"Mann's colorful and detailed narrative, studded with dozens of vivid anecdotes, reveals how ineptly [we] have managed our ties with the world's most populous nation.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, former \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e Beijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresident Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents saw China as an ally against the Soviet Union and looked askance at its violations of international principles. With the end of communism and China's continued human rights abuses, the U.S has failed to forge a genuinely new relationship with China. This is the essential story of contemporary U.S.\/China policy.\"Revealing and lively--eminently readable, often provocative.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wilson Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best book ever written by an American reporter about the strange relation between China and America.\"--Ross Terrill, author of \u003cb\u003eMao\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eChina in Our Time\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eMadame Mao\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mann takes us through the dizzying diplomacy and strategic U-turns that have characterized our formal relationship.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003eJames Mann lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305127563493,"sku":"NP9780679768616","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679768616.jpg?v=1767720968","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/about-face-isbn-9780679768616","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}