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Oct 21, 2014 · As James Bradley makes clear in The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia, FDR steadfastly resisted the aggressive, well-funded campaign of the China Lobby to force the U.S. government to embargo oil sales to Japan in the late 1930s.
May 3, 2016 · Paperback – May 3, 2016. by James Bradley (Author) 4.6 928 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
Apr 22, 2015 · Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to author and historian James Bradley, about his his new book, The China Mirage: The Hidden History of the American Disaster in Asia.
Apr 21, 2015 · Uncovers the nineteenth-century plan to create a 'New China' and 'Americanize Asia'...In this relentless critique of wrongheaded thinking by government officials who did not speak the Asian languages and had little hands-on experience, Bradley focuses especially on the foreign policy of the two Roosevelts...Bradley delivers a strenuous expose ...
Apr 21, 2015 · From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the port of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University, from the era of Appomattox to the age of the A-Bomb, The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines U.S.-Chinese relations to this day.
Apr 21, 2015 · “The China Mirage” by James Bradley will quickly open the reader’s eyes to how America’s greatest Colonial efforts were often both cruel and deceptive to the residents of whatever country the U.S. wanted - or wanted to control.
From the 1850s to the origins of the Vietnam War, Bradley reveals how American misconceptions about China have distorted our policies and led to the avoidable deaths of millions. THE CHINA MIRAGE dynamically explores the troubled history that still defines U.S.-Chinese relations today.
