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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
by MacMILLAN, Margaret
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 140006127X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061273
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 140006127X . A first edition of author's study of the historic visit made by U.S. President Richard Nixon to the China of Chairman Mao in 1972. The visit triggered a major shift in U.S.-Chinese relations. With a section of black & white plates. --- In black paper-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Dust jacket with photo of Nixon and Mao greeting one another. --- A very nice copy, clean, bright and newish. Unclipped jacket with slight rubbing, is otherwise undamaged.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xxii, 406 pages .
Synopsis
Margaret MacMillan is the author of Women of the Raj and Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World , which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, a Silver Medal for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. It was selected by the editors of The New York Times as one of the best books of 2002. Currently the provost of Trinity College and a professor of history at the University of Toronto, MacMillan takes up the position of warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, in July 2007. She is an officer of the Order of Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82024
- Title
- Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
- Author
- MacMILLAN, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 140006127X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061273
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 140006127X
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