Cold WarPenguin, 2002 - 359 pages A comprehensive look at the hundred-year history of the Cold War, from the rise of Lenin and communism to the foreign policy of George W. Bush. -- CNN's 24-part series, telecast in late 1998, is still alive and well on CNN Interactive. -- Who says the Cold War is over? Heard about the collision between the Chinese freighter and the U.S. Navy spy plane? New York Times political columnist Maureen Dowd said in April, "One veteran cold warrior who served under several presidents told me he was shocked that Bush II had refrozen the cold war." -- The Cold War International History Project Website at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has up-to-date info on books published about the Cold War, as well as conferences, news, etc. The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to the Cold War covers: origins of the Cold War -- Karl Marx, the Treaty at Versailles, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II; the China Lobby and the Marshall Plan, "American Caesar" in Korea and "Tail-Gunner Joe"; the birth of "talking head" journalism; those Happy Days 1950's; the Cuban Missile Crisis and death in Vietnam; the turbulent Sixties; Nixon visits China; Cold War America in the Seventies and Eighties -- the "Evil Empire, " Grenada, Nicaragua, and KAL Flight 007, and Post-Cold War policy, the Cold War legacy. |
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Table des matières
The Origins of Warring in the Cold | 1 |
Better Dead Than Red | 19 |
From Lenin to Stalin | 31 |
The Gathering Storm | 45 |
Global Responsibility | 57 |
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | 71 |
Harry Gives Em Heck | 83 |
Cooperating for Peace | 93 |
Death in Vietnam | 191 |
Doubting the Commitment | 203 |
Cooling the Cold War | 215 |
Playing the China Card | 222 |
A Ford Not a Lincoln | 227 |
Cynicism on Film | 239 |
Jimmys Good Intentions | 245 |
The Role of a Lifetime | 257 |
Its a Bad Bad World | 107 |
The Global Policeman | 119 |
Living in the Cold War | 133 |
Hollywood Sees Red | 147 |
Early Life in the Shadow of the Bomb | 157 |
Ike and the Spread of the Cold War | 165 |
Charisma and Camelot | 177 |
Coming Out of the Cold | 269 |
The New World Order | 283 |
The PostCold War Era | 295 |
Cold War Legacies | 309 |
Appendixes | 321 |
Further Reading | 329 |