Kevin Peraino is a veteran foreign correspondent who has reported from around the world. A senior writer and Bureau Chief at Newsweek for a decade, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for foreign reporting and part of a team that won the National Magazine Award in 2004. He is the author of A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949, and Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and The Dawn of American Power (Crown, 2013).
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Last Updated: December 7, 2017
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12.07.17
Could Truman Have Worked With Mao?
In the early months of 1949, it became increasingly clear that Mao Zedong’s Communists would win the Chinese civil war. This presented U.S. President Harry S. Truman with an unappetizing set of choices. He could either acknowledge the Communist...
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11.16.17
Mementos of 1949
Bodies jostled, elbow to elbow, angling all morning for a spot in the square. Soldiers clomped in the cold—tanned, singing as they marched, steel helmets and bayonets under the October sun. Tanks moved in columns two by two; then howitzers, teams of...