Corporations and the Cold War

by David Horowitz - (editor)

Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Who Made American Foreign Policy 1945-63?/ G. William Domhoff
The Large Corporation & American Foreign Policy/ Wm Appleman Williams
The New Deal, New Frontiers & the Cold War: A Reexamination of American Expansion, 1933-45/ Lloyd C. Gardner
Business Planners & America's Postwar Expansion/ David W. Eakins
Economic Effects of the Cold War/ Joseph D. Phillips
The Militarization of the American Economy/ Charles E. Nathanson
Index
David Horowitz grew up a "red diaper baby" in a communist community in Sunnyside, Queens. He studied literature at Columbia, taking classes from Lionel Trilling, & became a new leftist during the Soviet invasion of Hungary in '56. He did graduate work in Chinese & English at the Univ. of California, arriving in Berkeley in the fall of '59. There, he was a member of a group of radicals who in '60 published one of the 1st New Left magazines, Root & Branch. In '62 he published s manifesto of the New Left, a book titled, Student, which described the decade's 1st demonstrations.

249 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started Grinnell College at the very end of the sixties, right after they'd made the dorms co-ed, elected a male homecoming 'queen' and gotten the members of the student government association bailed out after their nude protest at a lecture given by a representative of Playboy. Having been a delegate to the last convention of the SDS in Chicago, I joined the college's chapter; got involved in Pterodactyl, the local underground paper; and started attending the 'free school' classes held evenings after regular classes ended. It was likely at one of these that this book, edited by one of the editors of Ramparts, was recommended.

The essays within are by some big names, Domhoff being my particular favorite then and now.

Finally, I'm not 100% certain which professor recommended this book. If it wasn't Terry it was likely Alan Nassar.

[Andrew Corsini · Rating 4 out of 5]

This exhaustive study of how corporations benefited and developed via the Cold War is all well and good, but it was written in 1969 before the final dramatic conclusion and so therefore mainly focuses on Vietnam and the Marshall Plan.

[Didier "Dirac Ghost" Gaulin · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are a few good articles included in this text, Eakins' in particular, but overall, the pieces selected are either poorly researched or are embedded quite obviously in a strict left-economico-political frame work. Williams' piece is particularly disappointing and ideological.