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Article: America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War.
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- The Nation
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- September 24, 1990
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AMERICA!S HALF-CENTURY- United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War. By Thomas J McCormick. Johns Hopkins University Press. 273 pp. $38.50. Paper 11.95.
The collapse of Soviet power and the associated transformation of international politics seem to deal a body blow to the revisionist scholarship that has questioned the orthodox verities about the cold war. As citizens in the Eastern bloc embrace the free market, Soviet leaders renounce their former militarism and the Bush team proclaims an era of peace, some favorite American cliches have gained a new lease on life. Nearly buried in a Vietnamese grave, they are now marvelously resurrected: Thus, socialism was a ...