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    <body><![CDATA[If you are a Poli Sci buff and want to know every last Poli Sci-geek detail of the history and politics of the Cold War, this is the perfect, comprehensive history of our side of the beginning, escalation, and strategies of the Cold War (since there isn't too much to say about the abrupt and unantic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45406863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (Galaxy Books) by John Lewis Gaddis (1982)]]></body>
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