America's Cold War : The Politics of Insecurity / Campbell Craig, Fredrik Logevall.
2009
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Title
America's Cold War : The Politics of Insecurity / Campbell Craig, Fredrik Logevall.
Author
Craig, Campbell, author.
ISBN
9780674053670
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (448 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674053670 doi
Alternate Call Number
ML 5700
Dewey Decimal Classification
909.82
Summary
In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But by engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle's continuation. Long after the USSR had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.
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Logevall, Fredrik, author.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 THE DEMISE OF FREE SECURITY
2 CONFRONTATION
3 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
4 LEANER AND MEANER
5 THE NUCLEAR RUBICON
6 GULLIVER'S TRAVAILS
7 NIXON'S WORLD
8 A NEW COLD WAR
9 ENDGAME
CONCLUSION
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 THE DEMISE OF FREE SECURITY
2 CONFRONTATION
3 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
4 LEANER AND MEANER
5 THE NUCLEAR RUBICON
6 GULLIVER'S TRAVAILS
7 NIXON'S WORLD
8 A NEW COLD WAR
9 ENDGAME
CONCLUSION
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX