University of Denver Spring 2025

RELEASES

The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy Suisheng Zhao, professor and director of the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies In “The Dragon Roars Back,” named one of the best books of 2024 by Foreign Affairs magazine, Suisheng Zhao presents a robust and empirically rich rebuttal of the theory that China’s foreign policy is the natural result of

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the global balance of power. Instead, he argues, its position emerges from the idiosyncratic visions of transformational leaders—Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping—who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity and power. Zhao examines how these leaders reshaped the broader political and institutional environment to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China’s ascendance.

Beat the Drum for Justice Christopher Cross (JD ’79)

In this historical novel, Christopher Cross delves deep into America’s troubled racial history by tracing the fictional life of Gabriel Adams from the 1850s to the early 1900s. Gabriel journeys alongside key figures like John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass through pivotal events such as the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction. Cross paints a portrait of the deep-seated racial prejudice and national shame that stem from slavery, the setbacks of Reconstruction and the Supreme Court’s failure to protect civil rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments

leading to the era of Jim Crow and segregation.

Landsberg B arbara Sutton King ( B A ’66)

“Landsberg” is set in a small German city by the same name in picturesque Bavaria that is struggling to recover from a devastating war. It’s 1952, and Beth Warren, an unconventional military wife, lands in the middle of this former “Hitler town” and begins to ask questions about the town’s recent past. Not to be distracted by cobblestones and medieval charm, Beth begins to peel back the facade of this fairy-tale town. In the process, she uncovers some unsavory truths about the town, the war, the U.S. military and even her own marriage.

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