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LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, by Calvin Tomkins. High life in Paris and on the Côte d'Azur with two rich Americans, one of whom became F. Scott Fitzgerald's Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. Slight but beautiful.
STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA, 1911-45, by Barbara W. Tuchman. American military and diplomatic blunders and the rarely sweet, often sour effects of the culture gap between the U.S. and China during World War II.