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Recent Books on the Cold War

updated 1/23/97 by Steve
Schoenherr

Alsop, Joseph. I've Seen the Best Of It: memoirs / Joseph W. Alsop ; with
Adam Platt. New York : W.W. Norton, 1992. NOTES:
495 p.: ill.; index. SUBJECTS: Journalists --
United States -- Biography. World politics -- 20th century. CALL #: PN4874.A43 A3 1992 DESCRIPTION:
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Andrew, Christopher M. For the President's Eyes Only : secret intelligence
and the American presidency from Washington to Bush. New York: Harper
Collins Publishers, 1995. NOTES: 660 p.: ill.;
bibliographical references (p. [627]-646) and index. SUBJECTS: Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Secret service -- United States -- History. Presidents -- United States --
History. CALL #: JK468.I6 A844 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Ashby, LeRoy. Fighting the Odds: the life of Senator Frank Church.
Pullman : Washington State University Press, 1994. NOTES: 749 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
[619]-724) and index. SUBJECTS: United States.
Congress. Senate -- Biography. Legislators -- United States -- Biography CALL #: E840.8.C49 A84 1994 DESCRIPTION: ------

Bamford, James. Puzzle Palace, The: A Report on America's Most Secret
Agency. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982, paper. NOTES:
465 p. ; bibliographical references and index. SUBJECTS: United States. National Security Agency. CALL #: KF7683.N32 B3 DESCRIPTION:
a history of the NSA signal intelligence-gathering operation. The book
was called harmful to U.S. security when published (see article by Peter Grier
in the Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 1987). ------

Barron, John. Operation Solo: the FBI's man in the Kremlin.
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1996. NOTES: 368 p.,
[8] p. of plates: ill.; index. SUBJECTS: Childs,
Morris, 1902-1991. Intelligence officers --United States --Biography. CALL #: 327.1273092 B277o 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Bernstein, Carl. His Holiness: John Paul II and the hidden history of our
time. New York: Doubleday, 1996. NOTES: - SUBJECTS: - CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: ------

Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair.
New York : Harper & Row, 1986. NOTES: 494 p.,
[24] p. of plates: ill., maps; bibliography: p. [415]-422 and index. SUBJECTS: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971. U-2 Incident, 1960. CALL #: E183.8.S65 B471 1986 DESCRIPTION: the best account of the Gary Powers and the
U-2 crisis of 1960, and its historical context. ------

Bilstein, Roger E. American Aerospace Industry, The : from workshop to
global enterprise. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. NOTES: 280 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
271-273) and index. Series: Twayne's evolution of modern business. SUBJECTS: Aerospace industries --United States --History.
Aircraft industry --United States --History. CALL #:
- DESCRIPTION: ------

Blight, James G. and Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch, with the assistance
of David Lewis. Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the missile crisis, and the Soviet
collapse; foreword by Jorge I. Dominguez. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
NOTES: 509 p. ; bibliographical references (p.
[449]-458) and index. Notes: "The text conveys ... the crisis itself and of the
January 1992 conference held in Havana"--Foreword. SUBJECTS:
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Congresses. Soviet Union -- Foreign
relations -- Cuba -- Congresses. CALL #: E841 .C8
1993 DESCRIPTION: ------

Borgiasz, William S. Strategic Air Command, The: evolution and
consolidation of nuclear forces, 1945-1955. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996.
NOTES: 158 p.; bibliographical references (p.
[147]-154) and index. SUBJECTS: United States. Air
Force. Strategic Air Command -- History. CALL #:
UG633 .B682 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Borstelmann, Thomas. Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and
Southern Africa in the Early Cold War. NY: Oxford, 1993. NOTES: 298 p.; notes and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: Truman needed uranium from South Africa,
because domestic and Canadian sources provided only 28% of U.S. supplies after
WWII. In 1945, the major source was the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo's Katanga that
provided the uranium for the first bombs. Led to coop. with Jan Smuts and
National party government, especially after South Africa opened its first
uranium plant in 1952. The 1951 Mutual Defense Assistance Act allowed military
aid to South Africa. ------

Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at
the Dawn of the Atomic Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1985, 1994. NOTES: 440 p.: ill.; Notes: Originally
published: New York : Pantheon, 1985. With new preface by the author. Includes
bibliographical references (p. 369-422) and index. SUBJECTS:
Atomic bomb. Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects. United States --
Civilization -- 1945- CALL #: E169.12 .B684 1994
DESCRIPTION: ------

Brands, H. W. Wages of Globalism, The: Lyndon Johnson and the limits of
American power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. NOTES: 294 p.; bibliographical references (p. 278-283) and
index. SUBJECTS: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines),
1908-1973. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969. CALL #: E846 .B65 1995 DESCRIPTION:
book has many weaknesses. ------

Broadwater, Jeff. Adlai Stevenson and American Politics: the odyssey of a
Cold War liberal. New York: Twayne, 1994. NOTES:
291 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 239-284) and index. Series:
Twayne's twentieth-century American biography series ; no. 15. SUBJECTS: Statesmen -- United States -- Biography. United
States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. CALL #:
E748.S84 B65 1994 DESCRIPTION: ------

Burrows, William E. Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security.
New York: Random House, 1986, paper. NOTES: 401
p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibiography: p. [381]-390 and index. SUBJECTS: Space surveillance -- United States. National
security -- United States. CALL #: UG475 .B871 1986
DESCRIPTION: one of the best studies of satellite
intelligence. ------

Carlisle, Rodney P. with Joan M. Zenzen. Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal:
American production-reactors, 1942-1992. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996. NOTES: 275 p.: ill.;
bibliographical references (p. 229-262) and index. SUBJECTS:
Nuclear reactors -- United States -- History. Nuclear weapons --
Equipment and supplies -- Government policy -- United States. Nuclear fuels --
United States -- Breeding -- History. CALL #: TK9202
.C23 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Carruthers, Susan L Winning Hearts and Minds: British governments, the
media and colonial counter-insurgency, 1944-1960. New York: Leicester
University Press, 1995. NOTES: 307 p.;
bibliographical references (p. 272-300) and index. SUBJECTS:
Counterinsurgency -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th
century. Public opinion -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
Insurgency -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century. Mass media
-- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century. Terrorism -- Great
Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century. Propaganda, British. Great
Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century. CALL #:
DA16 .C34 1995 DESCRIPTION: focuses on 4 case
studies of Palestine, Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus. ------

Cohen, Warren I. America in the age of Soviet power, 1945-1991. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. NOTES: vol. 4
of the Cambridge history of American foreign relations; maps; bibliographical
references and indexes. SUBJECTS: United States --
Foreign relations. CALL #: E183.7 .C24 1993 DESCRIPTION: ------

Cohen, Warren I. America's response to China : a history of Sino-American
relations, 3rd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. NOTES: 241 p.: ill.; bibliographical references
([215]-228). SUBJECTS: United States -- Foreign
relations -- China. China -- Foreign relations -- United States. CALL #: E183.8.C5 C62 1990 DESCRIPTION:
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Collins, Jane L. and Catherine A. Lutz. Reading National Geographic
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, paper NOTES:
309 p.; photos, bibliography notes and index. SUBJECTS: - CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: no articles on Russia appeared in the magazine
1945-59 when Nixon reported on his trip to Moscow after the Kitchen Debate. Also
there were few articles on PRC 1950-78 ------

Craig, Gordon Alexander and Francis L. Loewenheim, eds. Diplomats,
1939-1979. N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. NOTES: 747 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical
references and index. SUBJECTS: World politics --
1945-. Statesmen -- History -- 20th century. Diplomats -- History -- 20th
century. CALL #: D843 .D544 1994 DESCRIPTION: ------

Crockatt, Richard. Fifty Years War, The: the United States and the Soviet
Union in world politics, 1941-1991. New York: Routledge, 1995. NOTES: 417 p.: maps; bibliographical references (p.
384-398) and index. SUBJECTS: Cold War. World War,
1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history. United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet
Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. United States --
Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-1993.
CALL #: E183.8.S65 C75 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Curtin, Michael. Redeeming the Wasteland: television documentary and Cold
War politics. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. NOTES: 316 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
[267]-305) and index. Series: Communications, media, and culture. SUBJECTS: Television in propaganda -- United States.
Anti-communist movements -- United States. Television broadcasting of news --
Political aspects -- United States. Documentary television programs -- United
States CALL #: PN1992.8.D6 C87 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Divine, Robert A. Sputnik Challenge, The: Eisenhower's Response to the
Soviet Satellite. NY: Oxford, 1993. NOTES: 245
p.; bibliography notes and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: Sputnik
caused struggle between executive and legislative branches, creation of the
Director of Defense Research and Engineering and ARPA representing civilian
control rather than military. ------

Duggan, Christopher and Christopher Wagstaff, eds. Italy in the Cold War:
politics, culture and society 1948-1958. Oxford; Washington, DC: Berg, 1995.
NOTES: 228 p.; bibliographical references and index.
SUBJECTS: Italy -- Politics and government --
1945-1976.Cold War. United States -- Foreign relations -- Italy. CALL #: DG577 .I885 1995 DESCRIPTION:
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Edwards, Paul N. Closed World, The: computers and the politics of
discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996. NOTES: 440 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
[367]-428) and index. Series: Inside technology. SUBJECTS:
Computers -- History. Military art and science -- Data processing --
History. CALL #: QA76.17 .E34 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Ehrman, John. Rise of Neoconservatism, The: intellectuals and foreign
affairs, 1945-1994. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. NOTES: 241 p.; bibliographical references (p. 207-236) and
index. SUBJECTS: Conservatism -- United States --
History -- 20th century. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- United
States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. CALL #:
E744 .E36 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Esposito, Chiarella. America's Feeble Weapon: funding the Marshall Plan in
France and Italy, 1948-1950. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. NOTES: 226 p.; bibliographical references (p. [209]-220)
and index. Series: Contributions to the study of world history ISSN: 0885-9159;
no. 46. SUBJECTS: Marshall Plan. Economic assistance,
American -- France. Economic assistance, American -- Italy. CALL #: HC240 .E69 1994 DESCRIPTION:
------

Freedman, Lawrence and Efraim Karsh. Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991: Diplomacy
and War in the New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993,
paper. NOTES: 504 p.; illus; bibliography notes and
index. SUBJECTS: Persian Gulf War, 1991. World
politics -- 1989- Persian Gulf Region -- Foreign relations.Middle East --
Foreign relations. CALL #: DS79.72.F74 1993 DESCRIPTION: most comprehensive and balanced account of the
Gulf war, stress the global context and world politics at the end of the cold
war, "neither a celebration nor an indictment." (p. xxxv) ------

Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: the McCarthy era in perspective.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. NOTES:
243 p.; bibliography and index. SUBJECTS:
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. Anti-communist movements -- United States --
History -- 20th century. United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
CALL #: E743.5 .F67 1990 DESCRIPTION: ------

Gaddis, John Lewis. Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: an
interpretive history, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990. NOTES: 384 p.; bibliographical references and index. SUBJECTS: United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet
Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. United States --
Foreign relations -- 20th century. CALL #: E183.8.S65
G34 1990 DESCRIPTION: ------

Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of
Postwar American National Security. Oxford University Press, 1982, paper.
NOTES: 432 p.; bibliography: p. 411-422 and index.
SUBJECTS: United States -- Foreign relations --
1945-1989. CALL #: E744 .G24 1982 DESCRIPTION: from Truman to Carter. ------

Garthoff, Raymond L. Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the
End of the Cold War. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1994, paper. NOTES: 834 p.; notes and bibliography and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: a sequel to the influential 1994 Detente and
Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan . Argues that
Gorbachev started the changes that ended the cold war, with Reagan and Bush
slowly and reluctantly responding. Richard Pipes opposed this interpretation,
arguing that Reagan crushed the evil empire by force and a military buildup that
drove Russia to bankruptcy. Recent interpretations of Warren Cohen in American
in the Age of Soviet Power and Reinhold Wagnleitner in Coca-Colonization...
argue that American culture and the global marketplace ended the cold war. This
book covers 1981-1991. Reagan changed after 1985 due to new advisors such as
George Shultz and Frank Carlucci who were realists rather than ideologues such
as Caspar Weinberger ------

Garthoff, Raymond L. Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations
from Nixon to Reagan, 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1985,
1994 paper. NOTES: 1147 p.; bibliographies and index.
SUBJECTS: United States -- Foreign relations --
Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. CALL #: E183.8.S65 G371 1985 DESCRIPTION: see review of his Great Transition book.
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Gates, Robert Michael. From the Shadows: the ultimate insider's story of
five presidents and how they won the Cold War. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1996. NOTES: 604 p.: ill.; bibliographical
references (p. 577-580) and index. SUBJECTS: United
States --Foreign relations --Soviet Union. Soviet Union --Foreign relations
--United States. Gates, Robert Michael, 1943- Intelligence service --United
States --History --20th century. CALL #: 327.73047
G259f 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Goldberg, Robert Alan. Barry Goldwater. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995. NOTES: 463 p.: ill.; bibliographical
references (p. 421-451) and index. SUBJECTS: United
States. Congress. Senate -- Biography. Conservatism -- United States -- History
-- 20th century. Legislators -- United States -- Biography. United States --
Politics and government -- 1945-1989. CALL #:
E748.G64 G65 1995 DESCRIPTION: one of the best
studies of the rise of an important American political symbol and movement.
------

Goncharov, S. N. and John W. Lewis, Xue Litai. Uncertain Partners: Stalin,
Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
NOTES: 393 p., [18] p. of plates : ill.;
bibliographical references (p. [351]-380) and index. Series: Studies in
international security and arms control. SUBJECTS:
Korean War, 1950-1953. China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet
Union -- Foreign relations -- China. CALL #:
DS740.5.S65 G66 1993 DESCRIPTION: ------

Greene, John Robert. Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, The. Lawrence,
Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1995. NOTES: 256
p.; bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index. Series: American
presidency series. SUBJECTS: United States --
Politics and government -- 1974-1977. CALL #: E865
.G74 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Guilmartin, John Francis. Very Short War, A: the Mayaguez and the Battle
of Koh Tang, foreword by John Keegan. College Station: Texas A&M
University Press, 1995. NOTES: 238 p.: ill., maps;
bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index. Series: Texas A&M
University military history; 46. SUBJECTS: Mayaguez
(Ship). Mayaguez Incident, 1975. CALL #: E865 .G85
1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Hacker, Barton C.- Elements of Controversy: the Atomic Energy Commission
and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994. NOTES: 614 p.;
bibliographical references (p. 491-563) and indexes. SUBJECTS: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- History. Nuclear
weapons -- United States -- Testing -- Safety measures -- History. CALL #: U264.3 .H33 1994 DESCRIPTION:
------

Harper, John Lamberton. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt,
George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1994, paper. NOTES: 378 p.; bibliographical
references (p. 343-362) and index. SUBJECTS: Europe
--Foreign relations --United States. United States --Foreign relations --Europe.
United States --Foreign relations --20th century. Roosevelt, Franklin D.
(Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Kennan, George Frost, 1904- Acheson, Dean,
1893-1971. CALL #: 327.7304 H294a 1994 DESCRIPTION: won 1995 Ferrell Prize from SHAFR; contrasts
FDR's Jeffersonian hemispherism, Kennan's conservative Europeanism, Acheson's
entangling alliances with Europe. ------

Henggeler, Paul R. Kennedy Persuasion, The: the politics of style since
JFK. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1995. NOTES: 321 p.;
bibliographical references (p. 277-310) and index. SUBJECTS:
Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century. United States --
Politics and government -- 1945-1989. United States -- Politics and government
-- 1989- CALL #: E842.1 .H46 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Herman, Ellen. Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the
Age of Experts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, paper. NOTES: 406 p.; notes and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: DESCRIPTION: Project Camelot started in 1963 by DOD "to
predict and influece politically significant aspects of social change in the
developing nations of the world." (p. 154) but the tactic backfired when exposed
in Chile in 1965. ------

Hixson, Walter L. George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast. NY: Columbia
University Press, 1989. NOTES: 381 p.; bibliography:
p. 351-365 and index. Series: Contemporary American history series. SUBJECTS: Kennan, George Frost, 1904- Ambassadors -- United
States -- Biography. Cold War. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
CALL #: E748.K37 H58 1989 DESCRIPTION: ------

Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas. Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They
Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy. New York : Simon
and Schuster, 1986. NOTES: 853 p., [16] p. of plates:
ill.; bibliography: p. [809]-830 and index. SUBJECTS:
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography. United States -- Foreign
relations -- 20th century. CALL #: E747 .I77 1986
DESCRIPTION: ------

Jeffords, Susan. Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. NOTES: 212 p.; illus and bibliogrphy notes and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: DESCRIPTION: masculinity was not unique to the Hollywood of
the Reagan era, as Richard Slotkin has shown in his 1992 Gunfighter Nation, but
it was a theme in films such as Clint Eastwood revision of 1953's Shane into
1992's Unforgiven reflecting "continued militarism" and "the desperation of an
aging superpower." ------

Johanningsmeier, Edward P. Forging American Communism: the life of William
Z. Foster. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. NOTES: 433 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
[355]-421) and index. SUBJECTS: Communists -- United
States -- Biography. CALL #: HX84.F6 J65 1994 DESCRIPTION: ------

Kahin, Audrey. Subversion as Foreign Policy: the secret Eisenhower and
Dulles debacle in Indonesia. New York: New Press, 1995. NOTES: 318 p.: maps ; bibliographical references (p.
[245]-308) and index. SUBJECTS: Eisenhower, Dwight D.
(Dwight David), 1890-1969. Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959. Subversive activities
-- Indonesia. United States -- Foreign relations -- Indonesia. Indonesia --
Foreign relations -- United States. CALL #: E183.8.I5
K35 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Katz, Milton. Ban the Bomb: A History of SANE, the Committee for a Sane
Nuclear Policy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986, 1987 paper. NOTES: 215 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. [193]-203 and index.
Series: Contributions in political science ISSN: 0147-1066 ; no. 147. SUBJECTS: SANE, Inc -- History. Nuclear disarmament --
United States -- History. CALL #: JX1974.7 .K274 1986
DESCRIPTION: ------

Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
NOTES: 912 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references
(p. 837-872) and index. SUBJECTS: United States --
Foreign relations administration. CALL #: JX1662 .K57
1994 DESCRIPTION: emph. "geopolitics" or power
politics, and the conflict with idealism, as rep. by TR and WW. Argues the WW
sought ethnic self-determination, but WW used the term self-government and not
for ethnic reasons. Sought a Danubian Confederation rather than indep. Czech
(recognized first by Fr. and Brit.). WW learned from the Mex. revolution about
the limitations of intervention and was reluctant to intervene in Russia.
Kissinger does not emph trade or economic factors as a cause of the cold war as
does LaFeber in America, Russia and the Cold War. This bk answers the critiques
by Walter Isaacson's Kissinger (1992) and Seymour Hersch's Price of Power (1983)
------

Klehr, Harvey. Amerasia Spy Case, The: Prelude to McCarthyism. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. NOTES:
266 p.: ill. ; bibliographical references and index. SUBJECTS: Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th
century.Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Communism
-- United States -- History -- 20th century. CALL #:
E743.5 .K55 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996. 8th ed.
NY: McGraw Hill, 1996, paper. NOTES: 394 p.:
maps; bibliographical references and index. Series: America in crisis. SUBJECTS: World politics -- 1945- Cold War. United States
-- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations --
United States. CALL #: E183.8.S65 L34 1997 DESCRIPTION: a classic overview of the cold war,
emphasizing economic factors. ------

Lanouette, William with Bela Szilard, forward by Jonas Salk. Genius in the
Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb. NY:
Scribner's, 1993, paper. NOTES: 587 p., [16] p. of
plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 563-569) and index. SUBJECTS: Szilard, Leo. Manhattan Project (U.S.) --
History. Physicists -- United States -- Biography CALL #:
QC16.S95 L36 1992 DESCRIPTION: The story of a
charming idealist who spent his life trying to end the arms race he had helped
create; winner of a LA Times Book Prize for Biography. Born in Budapest 1898 son
of Jewish engineer, fled to Vienna 1933, helped other academics flee to London,
got idea for chain fission reaction waiting for the green light to cross the
street and filed secret patent with the British1934. After Munich 1938, stayed
in NY to work with Fermi. After Germany estabd a research unit in 1939, Szilard
and Wigner and Einstein drafted the letter to FDR. Was a founder of the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla 1962, just before his death. ------

Leffler, Melvyn P. Specter of Communism, The: The United States and the
Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953. NY: Hill and Wang, 1994, paper. NOTES: 147 p.: maps; bibliographical references (p.
[139]-140) and index. Series: A Critical issue. SUBJECTS:
Cold War. Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th
century. United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. United States --
Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United
States. CALL #: E744 .L432 1994 DESCRIPTION: Agrees with John Gaddis that American
decision-makers correctly perceived the threat of communism and acted
successfully to confront it, taking many risks to do so, sometimes foolish.
Emphasizes a national security paradigm, focusing on leaders and the pursuit of
preponderant power. But was the threat real and the response necessary? Argues
that there was an ideological threat since 1917, that Wilson and Hoover
perceived Bolshevism as an ideological and moral threat more than strategic or
military. After 1945, Russia and the U.S. were caught in a "security dilemma"
that escalated tension and mutual distrust. ------

Leffler, Melvyn P. Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman
Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press, 1992, paper.
NOTES: 689 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
[521]-671) and index. Series: Stanford nuclear age series. SUBJECTS: Cold War. National security -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953. CALL #:
E813 .L45 1991 DESCRIPTION: co-winner of 1992
Bancroft prize. ------

Maloney, Sean M. Securing Command of the Sea: NATO naval planning,
1948-1954. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995. NOTES: 276 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p.
253-267) and index. SUBJECTS: North Atlantic Treaty
Organization -- Armed Forces. Sea-power -- United States. Command and control
systems -- United States. United States -- Armed Forces -- Europe. CALL #: UA646.3.M244 1995 DESCRIPTION:
------

Marks, Frederick W. Power and Peace: the Diplomacy of John Foster Dulles.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993. NOTES: - SUBJECTS: - CALL #: E835 .M328
1993 DESCRIPTION: ------

Mastny, Vojtech. Russia's Road to the Cold War: diplomacy, warfare, and
the politics of communism, 1941-1945. New York: Columbia University Press,
1979. NOTES: 409 p.; bibliographical references and
index. SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945. Soviet Union
-- Foreign relations -- 1917-1945. CALL #: DK273 .M4
DESCRIPTION: ------

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era.
New York: Basic Books, 1988, paper. NOTES: 284
p.: ill.; bibliography: p. 247-278 and index. SUBJECTS:
Family -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Baby boom generation
-- United States. United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- CALL #: HQ535 .M387 1988 DESCRIPTION:
excellent cultural study of the cold war ------

McDougall, Walter A. Heavens and the Earth, The: a political history of
the space age. New York: Basic Books, 1985. NOTES:
555 p. : ill. ; bibliography: p. 466-536 and index. SUBJECTS: Astronautics and state -- United States.
Astronautics and state -- Soviet Union. Astronautics -- United States --
History. Astronautics -- Soviet Union -- History. CALL #:
TL789.8.U5 M34 1985 DESCRIPTION: ------

McMahon, Robert J. Cold War on the Periphery, The: the United States,
India, and Pakistan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. NOTES: 431 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical
references (p. [405]-417) and index. SUBJECTS: United
States --Foreign relations --India. India --Foreign relations --United States.
United States --Foreign relations --Pakistan. Pakistan --Foreign relations
--United States. United States --Foreign relations --1945-1989. CALL #: 327.73054 M167e 1994 DESCRIPTION: Truman sought support of India after Korean
war, but Nehru was arrogant and self-righteos. Dulles signed a pact with
Pakistan, JFK gave aid to Inda in 1962 war with China, but Nehru remained
non-aligned and Pakistan moved toward China. LBJ ended the Pakistan alliance and
allowed Soviet mediation opf 1965 clash over Kashmir. Until Prague 1968, LBJ
thought he had detente with Russia. ------

Merritt, Richard L. Democracy Imposed: U.S. occupation policy and the
German public, 1945-1949. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995. NOTES: 452 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
413-436) and index. SUBJECTS: Military government --
Germany -- History -- 20th century. Germany -- History -- 1945-1955. Germany --
Foreign relations -- United States. United States -- Foreign relations --
Germany. Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American. CALL
#: DD259.5 .M47 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Miscamble, Wilson D. George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign
Policy, 1947-1950. Princeton University Press, 1992, paper. NOTES: 419 p., illus.; bibliography notes and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: DESCRIPTION: Kennan had great influence on policy, but had
no overall plan of containment, and especially opposed global containment that
emerged by 1950 with Acheson and Dulles. Instead, Kennan preferred political
containment until the communist parasite would die out. Kennan favored the
Marshall Plan, economic aid, reconstruction of Japan, covert action in Italy,
bolstering China and Greece. A revived Europe and Japan would stop Russian
advances. Kennan favored patient diplomacy rather than military deterrence,
opposing NATO, partition of Germany, the H-bomb, and would be replaced by Paul
Nitze as PPS head. ------

Nadel, Alan. Containment Culture: American narrative, postmodernism, and
the atomic age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. NOTES: 332 p.: ill. ; bibliographical references and index.
Series title: New Americanists. SUBJECTS:
Postmodernism -- United States. Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- United
States. Arts, American. United States -- Civilization -- 1945- CALL #: E169.12 .N324 1995 DESCRIPTION:
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Neufeld, Michael J. Rocket and the Reich, The: Peenemunde and the coming
of the ballistic missile era. New York: Free Press, 1995. NOTES: 368 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
291-347) and index. SUBJECTS: Germany. Heer.
Heeresversuchstelle Peenemunde -- History. Rockets (Ordnance) -- Research --
History -- 20th century. Liquid propellant rockets -- Research -- History.
Ordnance -- Manufacture -- History -- 20th century. Peenemunde (Germany) --
Manufactures -- History. CALL #: UF535.G3 N48 1995
DESCRIPTION: ------

Norberg, Arthur L. and Judy E. O'Neill with contributions by Kerry J.
Freedman.. Transforming Computer Technology: information processing for the
Pentagon, 1962-1986. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. NOTES: 360 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p.
[301]-349) and index. Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of
technology. SUBJECTS: Computers -- History. Military
arts and science -- Data processing -- History. CALL #:
QA76.17 .N67 1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Powaski, Ronald E. Entangling Alliance, The: the United States and
European security, 1950-1993. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. NOTES: 261 p.; bibliographical references (p. [235]-243)
and index. Series: Contributions to the study of world history ISSN: 0885-9159;
no. 42. SUBJECTS: United States -- Foreign relations
-- 1945-1989. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-1993. United States --
Foreign relations -- Europe. CALL #: E744 .P678 1994
DESCRIPTION: ------

Powaski, Ronald E. Toward an Entangling Alliance: American isolationism,
internationalism, and Europe, 1901-1950. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
NOTES: 288 p.; bibliographical references (p.
[259]-271) and index. Series: Contributions to the study of world history ISSN:
0885-9159; no. 22. SUBJECTS: Neutrality -- United
States -- History -- 20th century. United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th
century. CALL #: E744 .P68 1991 DESCRIPTION: ------

Powers, Thomas. Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.
New York: Knopf, 1979. NOTES: 393 p.;
bibliography: p. [377]-[380] and index. SUBJECTS:
Helms, Richard. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. CALL #: JK468.I6 .P68 1979 DESCRIPTION:
a first-rate study of a key official. ------

Rand, Peter. China Hands: the adventures and ordeals of the American
journalists who joined forces with the great Chinese revolution. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1995. NOTES: 384 p.; 8 p. of
plates: ill, map; bibliographical references (p. 355-363) and index. SUBJECTS: Foreign correspondents -- United States. Foreign
correspondents -- China. Communism -- China -- History. China -- History -- .
Republic, 1912-1949. CALL #: PN4871 .R36 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Ranelagh, John. Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1986. NOTES: 847 p., [16] p. of
plates: ill.; bibliography: p. 795-807 and index. SUBJECTS:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History. CALL #: JK468.I6 R29 1986 DESCRIPTION:
one of the better histories of the CIA, including the use of satellites.
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Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: the making of the hydrogen bomb. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1995. NOTES: 731 p.: ill.;
bibliographical references (p. [691]-703) and index. Series: Sloan technology
series. SUBJECTS: Hydrogen bomb -- History. CALL #: UG1282.A8 R46 1995 DESCRIPTION:
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Richelson, Jeffrey T. American Espionage and the Soviet Target. New
York: Morrow, 1987. NOTES: 383 p.: ill.;
bibliography: p. 351-371 and index. SUBJECTS:
Espionage, American -- Soviet Union. United States -- Military relations
-- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Military relations -- United States. CALL #: E183.8.S65 R51 1987 DESCRIPTION: one of the best general accounts of American
intelligence in the cold war. ------

Richelson, Jeffrey T. America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole
Satellite Program. New York: Harper & Row,1990. NOTES: 375 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
321-346) and index. SUBJECTS: Space surveillance --
United States -- History. CALL #: UG1523 .R53 1990
DESCRIPTION: one of the best studies of satellite
intelligence. ------

Schaffer, Howard B. Chester Bowles: new dealer in the Cold War.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. NOTES:
387 p.; bibliographical references (p. 333-336) and index. An Institute
for the Study of Diplomacy book. SUBJECTS: Bowles,
Chester, 1901-. Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography. Ambassadors -- India
-- Biography. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. United States --
Foreign relations -- India. India -- Foreign relations -- United States. CALL #: E748.B73 S33 1993 DESCRIPTION:
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Sick, Gary. All Fall Down: America's tragic encounter with Iran. New
York: Random House, 1985. NOTES: 366 p.;
bibliography: p. 343-360 and index. SUBJECTS: Iran
Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981. United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran. Iran --
Foreign relations -- United States. CALL #:
E183.8.I55 S53 1985 DESCRIPTION: ------

Skates, John Ray. Invasion of Japan, The: alternative to the bomb.
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. NOTES: 276 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p.
259-264) and index. SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945 --
Campaigns -- Japan. CALL #: D767.2 .S56 1994 DESCRIPTION: ------

Smith, Gaddis. Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945-1993. New York:
Hill and Wang, 1994. NOTES: 280 p.; bibliographical
references (p. 261-269) and index. SUBJECTS: Monroe
doctrine. Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States. Latin America --
History -- 1948-1980. CALL #: F1418 .S635 1994 DESCRIPTION: ------

Stueck, William Whitney. Korean War, The: an international history.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. NOTES: 484 p.: maps; bibliographical references (p.
[447]-468) and index. Series: Princeton studies in international history and
politics. SUBJECTS: Korean War, 1950-1953. Korean
War, 1950-1953 -- Diplomatic history. CALL #: DS918
.S819 1995 DESCRIPTION: ------

Taubman, William. Stalin's American Policy: from entente to detente to
cold war. New York: Norton, 1982. NOTES: 291 p.;
bibliographical references and index. SUBJECTS:
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953. World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign
relations -- United States. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991. CALL #:
E183.8.S65 .T38 1982 DESCRIPTION: ------

Terriff, Terry, 1953- Nixon Administration and the Making of U.S. Nuclear
Strategy, The. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. NOTES: 252 p.; bibliographical references and index.
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs. SUBJECTS:
Nuclear weapons -- United States. Deterrence (Strategy) United States --
Politics and government -- 1969-1974. United States -- Military policy. CALL #: UA23 .T43 1995 DESCRIPTION:
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Thomas, Evan. Very Best Men, The: four who dared the early years of the
CIA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. NOTES:
427 p.: ill.; bibliographical references and index. SUBJECTS: United States. Central Intelligence Agency --
History. Intelligence service -- United States -- History. CALL #: JK468.I6 T455 1995 DESCRIPTION:
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Thomas, Evan and Isaacson, Walter. Wise Men, The: six friends and the
world they made : Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy. New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. NOTES: 853 p., [16]
p. of plates: ill.; bibliography: p. [809]-830 and index. SUBJECTS: Statesmen -- United States -- Biography. United
States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. CALL #:
E747 .I77 1986 DESCRIPTION: ------

Troy, Thomas F. Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the
origin of CIA. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. NOTES: 259 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p.
243-252) and index. SUBJECTS: Donovan, William J.
(William Joseph), 1883-1959. United States. Central Intelligence Agency --
History. Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography. CALL #: JK468.I6 T76 1996 DESCRIPTION:
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Vandenbroucke, Lucien S. Perilous Options: special operations as an
instrument of U.S. foreign policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
NOTES: 257 p.; bibliographical references and index.
SUBJECTS: Special operations (Military science) --
United States -- History -- 20th century. Special forces (Military science) --
History -- 20th century. United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. CALL #:
E840.4 .V36 1993 DESCRIPTION: ------

Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-colonization and the Cold War: the cultural
mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. NOTES:
367 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 331-362) and index. SUBJECTS: Propaganda, American -- Austria. Austria --
Civilization -- American influences. Austria -- Intellectual life -- 20th
century. United States -- Relations -- Austria. Austria -- Relations -- United
States. CALL #: DB91.2 .W3413 1994 DESCRIPTION: stresses importance of American popular
culture in postwar occupied Austria, the American-owned Rot-Weiss-Rot radio
station, books, newspapers, schools, esp Hollywood. VOA's Music USA show started
in 1955 had 30m listeners. The Monroe Doctrine was replaced by the Marilyn
Monroe Doctrine. Consumerism would finally defeat communism. American
imperialism was successful because it was invited, was self-colonization. Winner
of 1994 SHAFR Bernath prize. ------

Weir, Gary E. Forged in War: the naval-industrial complex and American
submarine construction, 1940-1961. Washington: Naval Historical Center,
Dept. of the Navy: For sale by U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1993. NOTES: 314 p.: ill. ; bibliographical references (p.
[279]-291) and index. SUBJECTS: Shipbuilding industry
-- United States. Military-industrial complex -- United States.Submarines --
United States. CALL #: D 201.2:F 76 Documents United
States DESCRIPTION: ------

Weisgall, Jonathan M. Operation Crossroads: the atomic tests at Bikini
Atoll. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994. NOTES: 415 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p.
375-395) and index. SUBJECTS: Operation Crossroads,
1946. Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing. Nuclear
weapons -- United States. CALL #: U264.3 W43 1994
DESCRIPTION: ------

Weiss, Stuart L. President's Man: Leo Crowley and Franklin Roosevelt in
peace and war. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. NOTES: 295 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.; bibliography and index. SUBJECTS: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),
1882-1945. Crowley, Leo. Politicians -- United States -- Biography. CALL #: E807 .W46 1996 DESCRIPTION:
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Westad, Odd Arne. Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American rivalry and the
origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946. New York : Columbia University
Press, 1993. NOTES: 260 p.: maps; bibliographical
references (p. [223]-245) and index. SUBJECTS: China
-- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- China. China -- Foreign relations --
Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China. CALL #: DS777.54 .W46 1993 DESCRIPTION:
uses braod range of archival sources in China, Taiwan, Hoover Institution
to argue that the Chinese civil war was a product of the cold war. Chiang had
Soviet-American support unti 1946 when Stalin demanded Chiang make a choice.
Chiang started the civil war as a result of Stalin's ultimatum. ------

White, Graham and John Maze. Henry A. Wallace: His Search for a New World
Order. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. NOTES: 347 p.; notes and illus. and index. SUBJECTS: CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: This is the first full biography of Wallace in
15 years. The authors are especially critical of Wallace's mysticism, that
caused the appointment of Nicholas Roerich to a mission to Asia in 1934 to
search for drought-resistant grasses. The publication in 1948 by Westbrook
Pegler of the "guru letters" written earlier by Wallace under the influence of
Roerich, was one cause of his 1948 defeat. ------

Whitfield, Stephen J. Culture of the Cold War, The. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1991, paper. NOTES: 261 p.;
bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index. Series: The American
moment. SUBJECTS: United States --Popular culture
--History --20th century. Cold War --Social aspects --United States. CALL #: 306.0973 W595c DESCRIPTION:
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Williams, William J.. Revolutionary War, A: Korea and the transformation
of the postwar world. Chicago, Imprint, 1993, paper. NOTES: 265 p. SUBJECTS: Korean
War, 1950-1953. CALL #: - DESCRIPTION: ------

Winik, Jay. On the Brink: The Dramatic, Behind-The-Scenes Saga of the
Reagan Era and the Men and Women Who Won the Cold War NY: Simon &
Schuster, 1996 NOTES: 672 p.: ill.; bibliographical
references (p. [628]-654) and index. SUBJECTS:
Reagan, Ronald. Cold War. United States -- Foreign relations --
1981-1989. United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union --
Foreign relations -- United States CALL #: E876 .W59
1996 DESCRIPTION: ------

Woods, Randall Bennett. Fulbright: a biography. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. NOTES: 711 p.: ill.;
bibliographical references and index. SUBJECTS:
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography. Legislators -- United
States -- Biography. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. CALL #: E748.F88 W66 1995 DESCRIPTION:
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