"Cumings's views derive from a close study of East Asia over several decades and produce insights that are devastating to American "amour propre." His is not just a new perspective but also the source of truly unknown information. There is no other voice quite like that of Bruce Cumings."--Chalmers Johnson, Japan Policy Research Institute

Bruce Cumings is Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He has won numerous awards and is the author of the acclaimed books Korea’s Place in the Sun, War and Television, and The Origins of the Korean War. Cumings writes regularly for The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Book Review.