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The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Shapes Our World Book

America won the cold war, what Derek Leebaert calls a "muffled world war" in The Fifty-Year Wound, but the cost of victory--psychically, morally, and financially--was beyond frightful. The Soviet Union collapsed peacefully; civilization survived "more or less" intact; the world was "liberalized," and the cold war period was the longest "great power" peace since Rome fell. But a half-century "pattern of alarm" and the "industry of national security" curbed freedoms, diverted talent into "fundamentally unproductive" fields, postponed research, "trammeled" investment, and caused a national "waste of spirit." As well, Leebaert suggests the Cuban missiles were primarily psychological threats; American involvement in Vietnam led to OPEC's economic muscle; Kennedy was perhaps the most hawkish of post-WWII presidents, and that the events of September 11 were a direct cold war legacy. This massive, comprehensive, and stern but guardedly optimistic overview will reward the determined reader with its insights and hundreds of telling, sometimes shocking, details. --H. O'BillovitchRead More

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  • Product Description

    What did the Cold War, that ongoing near-apocalypse, do to America? To the rest of the shaken world? What was lost, what was gained? How exactly did America manage to win? And how does all this prepare us for what lies ahead? This widely praised book-a sweeping narrative of the Cold War from start to finish, from suspicion to terror, from Berlin to Beirut, from senatorial rhetoric to bureaucratic bungling-is the first major work of history to address the real repurcussions of America's Cold War, and to reveal how that long struggle set the stage for the tumultuous world we find ourselves living in today.

  • 0316164968
  • 9780316164962
  • Derek Leebaert
  • 13 May 2003
  • Back Bay Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 784
  • Reprint
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