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Article: A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War.
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- The Nation
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- May 25, 1992
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A PREPONDERANCE OF POWER: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. By Melvyn P. Leffler. Stanford. 689 pp. $29.95.
America's victory in the cold war is bound to transform the historical scholarship on its origins. However, since it takes more lead time to produce a properly footnoted study than to build a missile, the full impact may be years away. The immediate effect has been to revitalize a question specialists have been debating for two decades: Was that first generation of American cold warriors-the gang of Harriman, Acheson, Kennan, Lovett et al.-made up of "wise men" or fools?
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