![]() | America''s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945–1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989–; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945–1989; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989–; Cold War -- Influence; The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. It ended in victory for the United States, yet it was a costly triumph, claiming trillions of dollars in defense spending and the lives of nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers. Apocalyptic anti-communism sharply limited the range of acceptable political debate, while American actions overseas led to the death of millions of innocent civilians and destabilized dozens of nations that posed no threat to the United States. Fredrik Logevall (born 1963) is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Cornell University, where he is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies. He is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam Wars. He is also the director of Cornell¿s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell's Vice Provost for International Relations. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America¿s Vietnam. (Bowker Author Biography) |
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