Volume 20, Number 9 · May 31, 1973
The Power and Old Glory
By Ronald Steel
A New Isolationism: Threat or Promise?
by Robert W. Tucker
Potomac Associates, 127 pp., $2.25 (paper)
The Limits of Power
by Joyce Kolko, by Gabriel Kolko
Harper & Row, 820 pp., $15.00
Witness to History
by Charles E. Bohlen
Norton, 576 pp., $12.50
The interesting question is not who started the cold war. The search for causes is as elusive in politics as in theology. Rather it is why the confrontation between America and Russia took the form it did. What was it about the way American leaders viewed the world—and America's place in the world—that induced them to launch a global policy of intervention and counterrevolution? To study American postwar foreign policy is to examine why, in Henry Steele Commager's words, 'the nation which fought the first revolution [has] become the leading opponent of revolution throughout the globe.'
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