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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Haunting legacy	Marvin L. Kalb	"Examines how presidential decisionmaking has been influenced by America's defeat in the Vietnam war, studying presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama a…	OL15991324W
America And The Imperialism Of Ignorance Us Foreign Policy Since 1945	Andrew Alexander	335 p., [8] pages of plates : 24 cm	OL17495722W
Presidents' secret wars	John Prados	Provides an analysis of postwar covert activities by United States intelligence agencies, documenting the early days of the CIA and its operations.	OL1836169W
Soldiers of Reason	Alex Abella	Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Al…	OL1890837W
The Roots of American Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Power and Purpose.	Gabriel Kolko	One of America's most perceptive young historians examines the misunderstood dimensions and implications of a great question confronting the nation -- our foreign policy. Professor Kolko makes it cle…	OL19364951W
Presidential decisions for war	Gary R. Hess	"In 1950, Americans expected that the United States would wage another major war in the near future. Instead, over the course of the next half-century, they fought limited wars against minor powers: …	OL1946614W
The Nazis next door	Eric Lichtblau	"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, a…	OL19988074W
US foreign policy and defense strategy	Derek S. Reveron	This work analyzes the strategic underpinnings of US defense strategy and foreign policy since 1945. Primarily intended to be a supplemental textbook, it explains how the United States became a super…	OL20001061W
Go With Me	David Armstrong,Joseph J. Trento,Castle Freeman	The turbulent nation of Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden is far more popular than George W. Bush, possesses a nuclear arsenal built with technology from the United States and Europe, and financed with…	OL2641968W
Three kings	Lloyd C. Gardner	As American policy makers ponder a strategy for withdrawal from Iraq, one of our preeminent diplomatic historians uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East i…	OL2667628W
USA and the Cold War in Asia, 1945-1975	Derrick Murphy,Mike Wells	74 p. ; 25 cm	OL27782427W
Sowing crisis	Rashid Khalidi	"During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological t…	OL3347239W
The real policy makers	Anna Kasten Nelson	"This book is about policy makers, often unknown, who have wielded enormous influence on U.S. foreign policy. With the advent of the Cold War, presidents moved beyond their secretaries of state and r…	OL4622185W
Imperial brotherhood	Dean, Robert D.	"This book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers - men who prided themselves on hard-headed pragmatism and shunned "fuzzy" idealism …	OL6208937W
On power and ideology	Brian Jones,Noam Chomsky	"One of Noam Chomsky's most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Unversidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height o…	OL71701W
The Ambivalent Alliance	Ronald J. Granieri	"The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that material to re-exam…	OL8919487W
Legacy of Discord	Gil Dorland	"More than a quarter century has now passed since the fall of Saigon. We still seek answers. Those who were responsible for planning the Vietnam War, those who fought in it, those who fought against …	OL8923724W