Presents a new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry.
War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion …
War - or the threat of war - usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicio…
Melvyn Leffler's succinct and important new analysis of the origins of the Cold War begins with the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917: ideological animosity between the Soviet Union and the United States existed from the moment Lenin seized power. Leffler traces the i…
Publisher's description: "Liberals lie about Reagan's victory because when Reagan won the Cold War, he proved them wrong on everything they had done and said throughout the Cold War. It is their last defense to fifty years of treason."--Ann Coulter. Since the fall of the Berlin …
This text explains the Cold War mindset that determined global policy for much of the 20th century. It also reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.
Reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward détente. Instead, he promo…
In this era of globalization, it is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. But as this history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy …
This title tells of how African Americans, led by the NAACP, sought to capitalize on world revulsion at the white supremacist excesses of Nazi Germany to fight for human rights, but were hampered by the Cold War, which enabled powerful Southerners to misrepresent their cause as …