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The Cold War: A New History

by John Lewis Gaddis

  • FINISHED
  • Finished February 2017
  • First published 2005

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A short account of the Soviet-American rivalry from 1945 to 1991, organized by theme rather than strict chronology.   Gaddis stresses the role of leaders and the ideas that drove them.