Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991

Cold War orthodoxy provides Americans with every reason to be proud of their “long twilight struggle” against Communism. It begins, of course, with Harry Truman, his heroic resistance to Soviet aggression in Europe, his defense of democracy in Korea and his opposition to the disastrous influence of McCarthyism, a malevolent force injected into “the bloodstream of th More »