A Cold Eye on the Cold War

How we avoided Armageddon

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Stephen J. Whifield , the Max Richter Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, is the author of The Culture of the Cold War and A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald, among other books.

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