This remarkable book will establish itself as the most significant work on the Park period. -- Stephan Haggard, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego
Byung-Kook Kim is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. Ezra F. Vogel (1930-2020) is the author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and of the international bestseller Japan as Number One. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Medero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics at Harvard University.
This remarkable book will establish itself as the most significant
work on the Park period.
*Stephan Haggard, Graduate School of International Relations and
Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego*
Park emerges in these essays as a remarkably skillful politician,
and the political dimensions of almost all economic policies were
foremost in his calculations...This excellent collection of essays
convincingly argues that any examination of South Korea as a model
of how a poor country can climb out of poverty needs to factor in
the personality of Park Chung Hee and the domestic and
international politics of the time.
*The Historian*
This significant work on the Park Chung Hee era is composed of 21
chapters by as many Korean specialists...The work provides an
enhanced understanding of the political and economic goals of Park
Chung Hee (i.e., rich country and strong military) and the forceful
means he was willing to use to achieve these goals. The scope and
insightfulness of this collection of essays on this critical period
in South Korean history make it a must for undergraduate and
graduate library collections on Korea. It is strongly recommended
for private collections on Korea as well.
*Choice*
Somehow [this] escaped the notice of much of the broader
world...This [collection] is superb, as it offers a very detailed
and also fairly comprehensive look at the seminal years for South
Korean economic growth…Not everyone will want 650 pp. on economic
(and other) policy under South Korean autocracy, but if you do this
is the book for you.
*Marginal Revolution*
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