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From the best-selling author of Flags of the Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Luxury cruise, a spellbinding background of turbulent US-China relationships from the nineteenth hundred years to World Warfare II and Mao's ascent. In each of his catalogs, Adam Bradley has open the concealed truths behind America's proposal in Asia. Now comes his most engrossing work yet. From the 1850s, Bradley presents us to the dominant People in america who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they - good Christians all - profitably addicted hundreds of thousands, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Traditional western ways. And this was just the start. From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; from the dock of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University; from the period of Appomattox to the age of the A-Bomb, The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day.
