China's Long March to the Twentyfirst Century
by Orville Schell
appears in About China, History, and Nonfiction.
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today?s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country?s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, fore...
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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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