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With the guide of her landmark bestseller London 1919, Margaret MacMillan was recognized as “an outstanding writer who are able to bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Today she brings her remarkable items to one of the most essential topics today–the connection between your Usa and China–and one of the most significant times in contemporary history. In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the very first American president ever to go to China, and Mao-Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist master, met for an hour or so in Beijing. Their meeting changed the span of history and eventually set the groundwork for the complicated connection between China and america that we observe today.That amazing meeting in 1972–during what Nixon named “the week that changed the world”–could have now been caused just by effective commanders: Nixon herself, an excellent strategist and a flawed individual, and Mao, willful and callous.