How and why did the Cold War begin? How and why did it end? What will its end mean for international relations? Opening his new book with the drama of people struggling to survive in rubble-strewn countries after the Second World War, Thomas G. Paterson follows the long Cold War…
The text has been thoroughly updated throughout to integrate new, relevant scholarship. While the subjects of diplomacy, war, economic intercourse, and politics remain central to the presentation of the foreign-relations story, the cultural dimensions of foreign relations are al…
Annotation This compelling volume, written by the distinguished diplomatic historian Thomas G. Paterson, examines why and how Americans have perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat in the last half century.
Meeting the communist threat: Truman to Reagan
Meeting the communist threat: Truman to Reagan
