Volume 17, Number 8 · November 18, 1971
Some Like It Cold
By Stephen Ambrose
The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II
by Adam B. Ulam
Viking, 405 pp., $10.95
The literature on the cold war, although already extensive and growing daily, is exceptionally weak on many problems, partly because of the apparent inability of most writers to abandon the 'good guys-bad guys' approach. Standard historical accounts of the recent past ascribe to Stalin and his successors motives for world conquest that would have made Hitler blush, while emphasizing the honorable intentions of the United States. The new left, meanwhile, sometimes seems to do little more than reverse the hero and villain roles.
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