
The Cold War as History
Louis J. Halle
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1968).
This volume contains some of Louis Halle's most memorable historical and political essays. Contents: On Push-Button War; The Berlin Wall; Mr. Spaak and the Doctrine of Collective Guilt; On a Certain Impatience with Latin America; The Davies Case; Goodness is Not Enough; The Making of Foreign Policy in a Democracy; The Evolution of World Politics; On Understanding Politics; Argentina and the Formulation of American Foreign Policy; Explaining Vietnam; Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process: The American Experience; The Concept of Sovereign Equality; R. W. Livingstone and the Nature of History; Herbert Butterfield: The Historian as Philosopher; De Gaulle and the Politics of Bismarck; The Conceptual Roots of War and Genocide; Lessons of the Nuclear Age; A Hopeful Future for Humankind; The World of George Kennan; The Identification of the Enemy; Does War Have a Future?
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- ISBN-13
- 9780060117375
- Genre
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1968)
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