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Article: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2003
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America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. By Volker R. Berghahn. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 373. $39.50.)
Now that the Cold War has come to an end, there has been a growing interest in the cultural implications of that discord as scholars begin to piece together a more comprehensive picture of the American-Soviet conflict. Volker R. Berghahn examines how American and European policymakers, corporate leaders, and intellectuals joined forces to win what was not only a political, military, and economic conflict, but also a battle over culture and ideas. The author portrays the cultural aspects of the Cold War from the ...