Author Kevin Peraino will discuss the presidency and foreign affairs as featured in his book, A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China—A gripping narrative of the Truman administration's response to the fall of nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949—an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day.
Kevin Peraino Lecture—A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
Titsworth Marjorie Leff Miller ’53 Lecture Hall
Open to the public
/ Monday