Cold War Triumphalism,9781565848993

Cold War Triumphalism

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ISBN13: 9781565848993
ISBN10: 1565848993
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-05-01
Publisher(s): New Pr
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Summary

The historical and ideological roots of right-wing dogma are exposed in this collection of essays by some of America's leading historians of foreign policy and the Cold War era, countering the triumphalist account of the political struggles of the Cold War.

Author Biography

Ellen Schrecker is Professor of History at Yeshiva University

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cold War Triumphalism and the Real Cold War 1(26)
Ellen Schrecker
PART I: INTELLECTUALS
1 Moral Judgments and the Cold War: Reflections on Reinhold Niebuhr, William Appleman Williams, and John Lewis Gaddis
27(44)
Leo P. Ribuffo
2 Time of Illusion: Post-Cold War Visions of the World
71(32)
Bruce Cumings
PART II: ECONOMICS
3 Market Triumphalism and the Wishful Liberals
103(23)
Nelson Lichtenstein
4 Cold War Triumphalism and the Deformation of the American Economy
126(23)
Michael A. Bernstein
PART III: THE PAST
5 "Papers of a Dangerous Tendency": From Major Andre's Boot to the VENONA Files
149(25)
Maurice Isserman and Ellen Schrecker
6 The Myth of the Berlin Blockade and the Early Cold War
174(27)
Carolyn Eisenberg
7 The United States, the United Nations, and the Other Post-Cold War World Order: Internationalism and Unilateralism in the American Century
201(36)
Jessica Wang
PART IV: THE PRESENT
8 The Three Cold Wars
237(25)
Chalmers Johnson
9 Still Stuck in the Big Muddy
262(12)
Marilyn B. Young
10 Remembrance of Empires Past: 9/11 and the End of the Cold War
274(25)
Corey Robin
Notes 299(42)
Contributors 341(4)
Acknowledgments 345(2)
Index 347

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