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

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The Fifty-Year Wound is the first cohesively integrated history of the Cold War, one replete with important lessons for today. Drawing upon literature, strategy, biography, and economics -- plus an inside perspective from the intelligence community -- Derek Leebaert explores what Americans sacrificed at the same time that they achieved the longest great-power peace since R...more
Paperback, 784 pages
Published May 13th 2003 by Back Bay Books
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Michael Bryan
Another book outlining the unintended consequences of the Cold War to our political culture, economy and conception of our role in the world. More in-depth treatment than some, but not more enlightening for that.
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