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The China Mirage

the Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
Sep 21, 2015StarGladiator rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
My major criticism with this book is the extraordinarily heavy-handed, one-sided treatment of labor and American workers vis-a-vis Chinese railroad workers, brought in by the boatload by the money trusts: the author sounds just like Rockefeller, Morgan and Harriman. [Their treatment was brutal, barbaric and uncalled for after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, but their treatment was horrendously bad under the railroad barons [most were literally worked to death]! Otherwise, a pretty good book and important to know that John Kerry's great-grandfather, Francis Blackwell Forbes, made the family fortune from being a drug dealer: selling opium in China! Also, pp. 356-357, I salute the author for the following: // Two Catholic presidents had opposed the insertion of American combat troops into Vietnam's civil conflict----John F. Kennedy and Ngo Dinh Diem. They were both assassinated within weeks of each other in November of 1963. \\ These are crucial and important details to remember! [The CIA's Lucien Conein was in Saigon when Diem was murdered, and photographed by James Altgens by JFK's motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was murdered.]