Kevin Peraino is a veteran foreign correspondent who has reported from around the world. A senior writer and Bureau Chief at Newsweek for a decade, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for foreign reporting and part of a team that won the National Magazine Award in 2004. He is the author of A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949, and Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and The Dawn of American Power (Crown, 2013).