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The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
Two decades ago, historian John Lewis Gaddis published The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, a pioneering work of scholarship that sought to explain how Americans found themselves, at the moment of their victory in World War II, facing a long, difficult, and dangerous struggle with an erstwhile ally, the Soviet Union. That struggle has finally concluded in a manner as abrupt, and with a victory as decisive, as the one Americans celebrated in 1945. In The United States and the End of the Cold War, Gaddis provides one of the first explanations of how this happened; he also considers what this outcome suggests about War history--and the post-Cold War future. The United States and the End of the Cold War contains significant new interpretations of the American style in foreign policy, the objectives of containment, and the role of morality, nuclear weapons, and intelligence and espionage in Washington's conduct of the Cold War. It reassesses, in ways sure to be controversial, the leadership of two distinctive cold warriors, John Foster Dulles and Ronald Reagan. It employs new methodological techniques to account for the sudden and surprising events of 1989. And it provides the clearest view yet of what a world without the Cold War is likely to be. Written with the vigor, authority, and adventurousness readers have come to expect from Gaddis's work, The United States and the End of the Cold War offers important new insights into how we got to where we are, and where we may be going.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 28th, 1994
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.11in - 0.84in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9780195085518
- Categories: • Modern - 20th Century - General• United States - 20th Century• American Government - National
About the Author
John Lewis Gaddis is Professor of History and director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. He is the author of The Long Peace and Strategies of Containment.
Praise for this book
"An enlightening survey....Gaddis has an engaging style, an impressive range of knowledge, and a way of getting after the truth."--Abraham Brumberg, The Washington Post Book World"Gaddis is at his best...when challenging the chain of seductive assumptions advanced by so many journalistic and academic deep thinkers to prove that the United States is effortlessly gliding into the best of all possible worlds....His skill at framing questions, identifying uncertainties and questioning generalizations...is a quality we need much more of in our national foreign policy debate."--Alan Tonelson, The New York Times Book Review"Uncommonly perceptive, carefully analytic, and engagingly elegant."--John Mueller, University of Rochester"One of America's leading historians of the Cold War era asks the right questions about how the lessons of the past can illuminate the future. As always, his answers are fascinating."--Joseph S. Nye, Jr., The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University"An excellent parallel text to a standard historical presentation, providing in-depth coverage of key developments in U.S. foreign policy."--Thomas P. Thornton, Johns Hopkins University"Meets the needs of my course."--Richard A. Stubbing, Duke University