Containment - Bibliography

Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York, 1969. Disputes Kennan on NATO and the Korean War.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. Vol. 2. The President. New York, 1984.

Arnson, Cynthia. Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976–1993. 2d ed. University Park, Pa., 1993.

Bell, Coral. The Diplomacy of Detente: The Kissinger Era. London, 1977.

Berman, Larry. No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. New York, 2001.

Bernstein, Barton J. "The H-Bomb Decisions: Were They Inevitable?" In Bernard Brodie et al., eds. National Security and International Stability. Cambridge, Mass., 1983.

Bernstein, Barton J., ed. The Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration. Chicago, 1970. Relevant revisionist volume on the Cold War.

——. The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues. Boston, 1976. The issue of postwar "atomic diplomacy" is disputed in this work.

Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963. New York, 1991.

Brands, H. W. The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power. New York, 1995.

Bundy, McGeorge. Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years. New York, 1988.

Burnham, James. Containment or Liberation? An Inquiry into the Aims of United States Foreign Policy. New York, 1953.

Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. The Clinton Presidency: First Appraisals. Chatham, N.Y., 1996.

Chang, Gordon H. Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972. Stanford, Calif., 1990.

Chomsky, Noam. World Orders, Old and New. New York, 1994.

Costigliola, Frank. "'Unceasing Pressure for Penetration': Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George Kennan's Formation of the Cold War." Journal of American History 83 (March 1997).

Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Cold War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes. Princeton, N.J., 1981.

——. The Origins of the Cold War: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947–1950. Princeton, N.J., 1990.

Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973. New York, 1998.

Divine, Robert A. Eisenhower and the Cold War . New York, 1981.

Draper, Theodore. A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs. New York, 1991.

Foot, Rosemary. The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–1953. Ithaca, N.Y., 1985.

——. The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with China Since 1949. New York, 1995.

Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. New York, 2000.

Fursenko, Aleksandr, and Timothy Naftali. "One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964. New York, 1997.

Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. New York, 1982.

——. The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. New York, 1987.

——. The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations. New York, 1992.

——. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York, 1997.

Gardner, Lloyd C. Approaching Vietnam: From World War II Through Dienbienphu, 1941–1954. New York, 1988.

——. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. Chicago, 1995.

Garthoff, Raymond L. Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C., 1994.

——. The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, D.C., 1994.

Gati, Charles, ed. Caging the Bear: Containment and the Cold War. Indianapolis, 1974.

Gellman, Barton. Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power. New York, 1984.

Grose, Peter. Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain. Boston, 2000.

Hixson, George L. George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast. New York, 1989.

Hoff-Wilson, Joan. Nixon Reconsidered. New York, 1994.

Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. New York, 1987.

Hogan, Michael J., ed. The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications. New York and Cambridge, 1992.

Hyland, William. Mortal Rivals: Superpower Relations from Nixon to Reagan. New York, 1987.

Immerman, Richard H., ed. John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War. Princeton, N.J., 1990.

Jackson, Henry. From the Congo to Soweto: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa Since 1960. New York, 1982.

Karabell, Zachary. Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946–1962. Baton Rouge, La., 1999.

Kaufman, Burton Ira. The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. Lawrence, Kans., 1993.

Kennan, George F. Realities of American Foreign Policy. Princeton, N.J., 1954.

——. Russia, the Atom, and the West New York, 1958.

——. Memoirs, 1925–1950. Boston, 1967.

——. Memoirs, 1950–1963. Boston, 1972.

——. American Diplomacy, 1900–1950. Expanded ed. Chicago, 1984.

Kimball, Jeffrey. Nixon's Vietnam War. Lawrence, Kans., 1998.

Kolko, Gabriel. The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943–1945. New York, 1968. Relevant revisionist volume on the Cold War.

——. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience. New York, 1985.

——. Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1980. New York, 1988.

Kolko, Gabriel, and Joyce Kolko. The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945–1954. New York, 1972. Relevant revisionist volume on the Cold War.

Kuniholm, Bruce. The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece. Princeton, N.J., 1980.

Lacey, Michael, ed. The Truman Presidency. New York, 1989.

LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1975. New York, 1976. Has a substantial bibliography.

——. Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America. Rev. ed. New York, 1984.

——. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japanese Relations. New York, 1997.

Larson, Deborah Welch. Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation. Princeton, N.J., 1985.

Leffler, Melvyn. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford, Calif., 1992.

LeoGrande, William M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1998.

Lippmann, Walter. The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy. New York, 1947.

Litwak, Robert. Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969–1976. New York, 1984.

Logevall, Frederik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley, Calif., 1999.

Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. New York, 1996.

May, Ernest, ed. American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68. Boston, 1993.

May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow, eds. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, Mass., 1997.

Mayers, David. George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy. New York, 1988.

Miscamble, Wilson. George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947–1950. Princeton, N.J., 1992.

Nathan, James A., ed. The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited. New York, 1992.

Paterson, Thomas G. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. New York, 1994.

Paterson, Thomas G., ed. Containment and the Cold War: American Foreign Policy Since 1945. Reading, Mass., 1972.

——. Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961–1963. New York, 1989.

Prados, John. Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf. New York, 1996.

Schmertz, Eric J., Natalie Datlof, and Alexej Ugrinsky, eds. President Reagan and the World. Westport, Conn., 1997.

Schulzinger, Robert D. Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy. New York, 1989.

Sigal, Leon V. Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea. Princeton, N.J., 1998.

Smith, Gaddis. Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years. New York, 1986.

Smith, Michael Joseph. Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger. Baton Rouge, La., 1986.

Stephanson, Anders. Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy. Cambridge, Mass., 1989.

Stueck, William. The Korean War: An International History. New York, 1985.

Trachtenberg, Marc. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963. Princeton, N.J., 1999.

Ulam, Adam. The Communists: The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1948–1991. New York, 1992.

Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. 2d rev. ed. Cleveland, 1972. Relevant revisionist volume on the Cold War.

Wittner, Lawrence. America's Intervention in Greece. New York, 1982.

Wright, C. Ben. "Mr. 'X' and Containment." Slavic Review 35 (1976).

Young, Marilyn. The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990. New York, 1991.

Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. Cambridge, Mass., 1996.