THE CHINA MIRAGE

From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.

THE CHINA MIRAGE connects the dots from the 19th century to Richard Nixon and his opening to China to reveal how the impact of the China mirage on the American imagination has distorted our domestic politics, contorted our foreign policy, spawned our militarized national security state, and led to the avoidable deaths of over one hundred thousand Americans, via Korea and Vietnam, and millions of Asians in countless wars.

Thrillingly told and filled with larger-than-life characters - FDR, J. Edgar Hoover, Harry Truman, General George C. Marshall, Senator Joe McCarthy, General Douglas MacArthur, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek, to name only a few - THE CHINA MIRAGE is a dynamic story that will unravel the myths we have about America's long history with the world's emerging superpower.

James Bradley is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Imperial Cruise, Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers and the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.