Melvyn P Leffler
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 586 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did?
The distinguished historian Melvyn P. Leffler homes in on four crucial episodes when American and Soviet leaders considered modulating, avoiding, or ending...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. Why did the United States withdraw strategically from Europe after World War I and not after World War II? How did World War II reshape Americans' understanding of their vital...
