Altered States

Michael Schaller is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. He is the author of a number of books, including Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s; Douglas McArthur: Far Eastern General; The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia; and The United States and China in the Twentieth Century.

attention to detail, and a narrative whose control is admirable given the easily contestable and often inflammatory nature of its objects