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Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Security
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Aerospace Power Journal
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July 1, 2002
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Copyright informationCopyright U.S. Superintendent of Documents Summer 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Security by Linda McFarland. Praeger Publishers (http://auburnhouse. com/praeger.htm), 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881-5007, 2001, 240 pages, $62.00.
Never read the liner notes. They inevitably promise more than the author delivers. On occasion, the author commits the liner-note sin, and this book is a case in point.
McFarland claims that Symington (1901-88) began moving from cold warrior to dove in the middle of his Senate career when he started to become aware of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and administration deceit in Southeast Asia: "Symington evolved from a Cold Warrior who rarely questioned ...
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