The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Book Overview

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold war--the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower Administration's policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensional account based on prodigious, cutting edge research, this volume convincingly portrays Eisenhower's private belief that close relations between the United States and the People's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231159250
• ISBN13: 9780231159258
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"