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Meeting the Communist Threat - Truman to Reagan (Paperback, Reissue)
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Meeting the Communist Threat - Truman to Reagan (Paperback, Reissue)
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This provocative volume, written by the distinguished diplomatic
historian Thomas G. Paterson, explores why and how Americans have
perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat in the last half
century. Basing his spirited analysis on research in private
papers, government archives, oral histories, contemporary writings,
and scholarly works, Paterson explains the origins and evolution of
United States global intervention. Deftly exploring the ideas and
programs of Truman, Kennan, Eisenhower, Dulles, Kennedy, Nixon,
Kissinger, and Reagan, as well as the views of dissenters from the
prevailing Cold War mentality, Paterson reveals the tenacity of
American thinking about threats from abroad. He recaptures the
tumult of the last several decades by treating a wide range of
topics, including post-war turmoil in Western Europe, Mao's rise in
China, the Suez Canal, the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War,
CIA covert actions, and Central America.
Paterson's vivid account of America's Cold War policies argues
that, while Americans did not invent the Communist threat, they
have certainly exaggerated it, nurturing a trenchant anti-communism
that has had a devastating effect on international relations and
American institutions.
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