James Bamford, A Pretext for War (2005)

James Bamford.
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, with a new Afterword.
New York: Anchor, May 2005 (first published by Doubleday, June 2004).

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James Fallows on China

James Fallows.
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China.
New York: Vintage, December 2008.

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James Fallows, Wikipedia.

James Fallows' blog and article archive at The Atlantic.

The book is a collection of essays previously published in The Atlantic. Most of the essays are available online. Collecting them in book form results in an introduction/survey of contemporary China. The essays are:

• Postcards From Tomorrow Square, December 2006


• Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town, March 2007


• Win in China!, April 2007


• China Makes, The World Takes, July/August 2007


• Macau’s Big Gamble, September 2007


• The View from There, November 2007


• The $1.4 Trillion Question, January/February 2008


• “The Connection Has Been Reset”, March 2008


• China’s Silver Lining, June 2008


• How the West Was Wired, October 2008


• After the Earthquake
  (This essay did not appear in The Atlantic and is not on their website. It gives a brief account of the aftermath of the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake in four Sichuan villages a month or two after the event.)


• Their Own Worst Enemy, November 2008

Some other publications by Fallows on China and East Asia:

• Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System, Pantheon, 1994; Vintage, 1995.
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• “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money”, The Atlantic, December 2008.


• Musical Chairs, The Atlantic, March 2009.


• China's Way Forward, The Atlantic, April 2009.