One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation
by J. Maarten Troost
appears in About China, Hobbies, and Travel.
The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China?a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained. Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laughoutloud tales of wandering the remote isla...
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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