# Seize the Hour

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- Authors: [Margaret Brimble](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-brimble)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-10-04

## Description

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations and changed the international balance of power for ever. This turning point in history was enacted by extraordinary players: Nixon himself, red-baiter, shrewd statesman and disgraced politician; Mao, frail, erratic, ruthless; the twin Machiavellis Kissinger and Chou En-lai; brittle, unhappy Pat Nixon; and Mao's wife Jiang Qing, the small-time Shanghai actress become scourge of Chinese civilization.

## Editions

### Seize the Hour

- Publisher: John Murray
- ISBN: 978-07-1956-523-6
- Published: 2007-10-04
- Language: en_GB