Nicholas Griffin is a journalist and author of four novels one work of non-fiction. His writing has appeared in The Times (UK), The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications on topics as disparate as sports and politics, piracy, filmmaking in the Middle East, and the natural sciences. Griffin has written for film and is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
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"Ping-Pong Diplomacy belongs in the category of 'you can't make
this stuff up.' It reads more like a le Carré novel than diplomatic
history. But the tale it recounts actually happened, and casts a
new and provocative light on the U.S. Opening to China, one of the
great foreign policy breakthroughs of the 20th
century."--Anne-Marie Slaughter "author of A New World Order and
The Idea That Is America "
"Ping-Pong Diplomacy is a deeply absorbing, suspenseful, and
hilarious behind-the-scenes peek into a riveting slice of sports
and political history. Nicholas Griffin has delivered an overhead
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Idiot, creator of Found Magazine, and contributor to public radio's
This American Life
"At last, here is the fascinating story of the sport that shaped
the geopolitics today. Part character-driven history, part
diplomatic caper, and part investigative pilgrimage to contemporary
China, Ping Pong Diplomacy makes us look again at an event that
Griffin reveals is the climax of a decades-long movement. This is
narrative history at its best."--Michael Meyer, author of The Last
Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City
Transformed
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