Volume 20, Number 10 · June 14, 1973
The Good Old Days
By Ronald Steel
Peace in the Balance
by Eugene V. Rostow
Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $8.95
Power and Equilibrium in the 1970s
by Alistair Buchan
Praeger, 120 pp., $6.00
The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War
by Robert James Maddox
Princeton, 169 pp., $7.95
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War
by John Lewis Gaddis
Columbia, 396 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The pursuit of the national interest is supposed to be the goal of foreign policy, but, like happiness, it is subject to a variety of definitions. For nearly a quarter of a century Americans have tended to agree about the ambitions and methods of our foreign policy. This has extended at least from the Truman Doctrine of 1947, which codified the breakdown of the wartime alliance with Russia, until Lyndon Johnson was driven from office for waging a war that could no longer be justified under the outworn tenets of the containment doctrine.
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