The Cold War: A New History (2024)

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From Publishers Weekly Gregory and Sklar, reading Yale history professor Gaddis's study of the American-Soviet standoff, give voice to their inner television announcer, their twin brands of masculine sonorousness verging on virile parody before settling comfortably on the side of familiar voice-over solidity. Gaddis's work unravels the tangled threads of the Cold War, from the tense Allied conferences at the end of WWII to the Korean War and onward, and his book's readers give it the sensation of every word being carefully cultivated and primped before being spoken. If this leads to some of the immediacy, the heart-in-throat sensation, of the events described being diluted, so be it, for Gregory and Sklar give Gaddis's book the grandeur its subject matter so richly deserves. Sounding more professorial, in the I-play-an-Ivy-League-professor-on-television sort of way, than the good professor himself, Gregory and Sklar do an admirable job of making Gaddis's learned words their own.
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From Bookmarks Magazine Gaddis, professor of history at Yale and the Cold Wars preeminent historian, delivers a concise, readable introduction to an era about which Americans have increasingly little recollection. The author has had the somewhat unusual opportunity to examine his period of expertise both from withinin his books Strategies of Containment (1982) and The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987), for instanceand now, with the benefit of new archival documents and hindsight, as a series of historical events. Although the relative brevity of the volume might suggest that Gaddis values concision over detail, the study gives new focus and meaning to one of the United States watershed periods.
Copyright 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.

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First published in the U.S. by Penguin Press, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-314) and index.

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The Cold War : a new history

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John Lewis Gaddis

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Penguin Books

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Penguin Press

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New York, New York (State), 2007

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New York, cop. 2005

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Illustrated, 2006

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December 26, 2006

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Reprint, 2006

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in 1950, When Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh And Kim Il-sung Met In Moscow To Discuss The Future, They Had Reason To Feel Optimistic. International Communism Seemed Everywhere On The Offensive: Stalin Was At The Height Of His Power; All Of Eastern Europe Was Securely In The Soviet Camp; America's Monopoly On Nuclear Weapons Was A Thing Of The Past; And Mao's Forces Had Assumed Control Over The World's Most Populous Country. Everywhere On The Globe, Colonialism Left The West Morally Compromised. The Story Of The Previous Five Decades, Which Saw Severe Economic Depression, Two World Wars, A Nearly Successful Attempt To Wipe Out The Jews, And The Invention Of Weapons Capable Of Wiping Out Everyone, Was One Of Worst Fears Confirmed, And There Seemed As Of 1950 Little Sign, At Least To The West, That The Next Fifty Years Would Be Any Less Dark.in Fact, Of Course, The Century's End Brought The Widespread Triumph Of Political And Economic Freedom Over Its Ideological Enemies. How Did This Happen? How Did Fear Become Hope? In the Cold War, John Lewis Gaddis Makes A Major Contribution To Our Understanding Of This Epochal Story. Beginning With World War Ii And Ending With The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, He Provides A Thrilling Account Of The Strategic Dynamics That Drove The Age, Rich With Illuminating Portraits Of Its Major Personalities And Much Fresh Insight Into Its Most Crucial Events. The First Significant Distillation Of Cold War Scholarship For A General Readership, the Cold War Contains Much New And Often Startling Information Drawn From Newly Opened Soviet, East European, And Chinese Archives. Now, As America Once Again Finds Itself In A Global Confrontation With An Implacable Ideological Enemy, the Cold War Tells A Story Whose Lessons It Is Vitally Necessary To Understand. <h3>the New York Times - William Grimes</h3> in the Cold War: A New History, He Offers A Succinct, Crisply Argued Account Of The Soviet-american Conflict That Draws On His Previous Work And Synthesizes The Mountain Of Archival Material That Began Appearing In The 1990's. Energetically Written And Lucid, It Makes An Ideal Introduction To The Subject.

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Many will remember what it was like to live under the shadow of the Cold War, the ever-present anxiety that at some point, because of some miscalculation or act of hubris, we might find ourselves in the middle of a nuclear holocaust—a war that , if we survived it, would change our lives and our planet forever.
How did this terrible conflict arise? How did wartime allies so quickly become deadly foes after 1945 and divide the world into opposing camps, each armed to the teeth? And how, suddenly, did it all come to an end? Only now that the Cold War has been over for fifteen years can we begin to find a convincing perspective on it. John Lewis Gaddis’s masterly book is the first full, major history of the whole conflict and explains not just what happened, but why it happened—why the Soviet Union brutally repressed rebellion in East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; how Kennedy and Khrushchev confronted each other over the Cuban Missile Crisis; why Nixon and Mao Zedong sought wary friendship; what, at the end, John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev each thought they were doing. Gaddis has synthesised all the most recent scholarship, but has also used minutes from Politburo meetings, startling information from recently opened Soviet and Asian archives, conversations between leaders overheard and noted down by their aides, and above all, the words of the leading participants themselves—showing what was really on the mind of each, with a very dramatic immediacy.
With the judgement of a master history, Gaddis shows what the underlying dynamics of the conflict were—how politics and ideology interact with each other, how changes in society were as important as changes in government, and how ideas of morality affected (or didn’t affect) what politicians actually did. Finally, in a work who’s interpretive authority equals its narrative power, he how’s how policy makers at the top—and ordinary people at the bottom—reversed the course of history thereby achieving one of the greatest victories ever for the human spirit.
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“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.”—The Boston Globe “Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.”—The New York Times The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. Gaddis is also the author of On Grand Strategy.

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Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is an account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and insight into its most crucial events. Drawing on newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why -- from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev

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Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn from newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Now, as America once again finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, this is a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand.--From publisher description

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Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom.

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