“The Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis, is a terrifically researched, footnoted and marvelously written historical account of the Cold War. In the book's preface, Professor Gaddis explains concisely what he set out to do with this project and one, if in doubt about reading this account, should simply read these three plus pages. Gaddis speaks of the need for a "short, comprehensive, and accessible book" on the period that passes the test of his late Yale colleague and historian's litmus test of...”

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