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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
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2017
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8 editions
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Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
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2013
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5 editions
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Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future
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2005
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3 editions
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“His father, Acheson later recalled, believed that a great deal in life “could not be affected or mitigated, and, hence, must be borne. Borne without complaint, because complaints were a bore and nuisance to others and undermined the serenity essential to endurance.”
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
“But Acheson said nothing about Taiwan—or even Korea. “We can help,” he concluded, “only where we are wanted and only where the conditions of help are really sensible and possible.”
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
“He explained by quoting a favorite classical Greek definition of happiness: “the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.” Public service, he wrote, provided an antidote to the “flatness of life.”
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
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