Kevin Peraino: 2 books
A Force So Swift
Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award
A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues...
Lincoln in the World
The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents—and helped point the way to America’s rise to world power.
Abraham Lincoln is not often remembered as a great foreign-policy president. He had never traveled overseas and spoke no foreign languages....