The Cold War

By Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward. 1966, Pere Marquette Press, 274pp, 6.2x4.2". A hawkish demand for greater military strength to counter the soviets. "How you vote can help secure peace in Vietnam and save America from a Soviet strike from space.". (VG) (9/28/99)

By John Man. 1973, Ballantine, 160pp, B+W illustrations throughout. (VG. 1st printing.) No. 10 in the series Politics in Action/Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. History of the Berlin Airlift. (5/21/99)

By Tim Weiner. 1990, Warner Books, 273pp. List $21.95. "Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"--a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars." Jacket Text (7/23/99)

By William Broad. 1992, Simon & Schuster, 350pp. (VG) "He is the father of the H-bomb, and the discovery of the X-ray laser was a breakthrough he could claim as his own. His research laid the foundation for the strategic defense initiative, dubbed "Star Wars" by the American press, which was to have been the crowning glory of Teller's already illustrious career -- except that its development was based on faulty scientific assumptions." Edward Teller | Strategic Defense Initiative (5/4/99)

By William Bragg Ewald. 1984, Simon & Schuster, 397pp, photo insert. (Near Fine in VG DJ) "The first complete account, based on new documentary evidence, of the Wisconsin Senator's politically fatal confrontation with the Army." (6/8/99)

By Richard H. Rovere. 1959 (1973), Harper and Row, 280pp. (Near Fine. Slight yellowing along edges, but unread.) A profile of the senator who spearheaded the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s. (7/7/99)

By J. Edgar Hoover. 1958, Henry Holt, 374pp. The FBI director details the Communist plot. (VG, no DJ.) (9/6/99)

By Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 1998, Yale University Press, 262pp, Pub. at $25.00. (Fine in Near Fine DJ) "Moynihan has traced how the system of governmental secrecy developed during the 20th century and how this secrecy blighted prudent policy making." (7/2/99)

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