Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy.
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All You Need Is Love
June 22, 2006
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin
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James Chace (1931–2004)
December 2, 2004
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Where It Began
September 23, 2004
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs—The Election That Changed the Country
by James Chace
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George Kennan at 100
April 29, 2004
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The Missionary
November 20, 2003
Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations
by Lloyd E. Ambrosius
Woodrow Wilson
by H.W. Brands
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan, with a foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations
by John Milton Cooper Jr.
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House
by Phyllis Lee Levin
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Big Daddy
October 18, 2001
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
edited by Amanda Smith
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‘Mr. Fixit’
May 17, 2001
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Mr. Fix-It
October 5, 2000
Woodrow Wilson
by Louis Auchincloss
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‘Instead of NATO’
March 26, 1998
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Instead of NATO
January 15, 1998
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‘Temptations of a Superpower’
February 1, 1996
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Shultz’s Revenge
September 23, 1993
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State by George P. Shultz
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A Self-Made Man
August 13, 1992
Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley
Eberstadt and Forrestal: A National Security Partnership, 19091949
by Jeffrey M. Dorwart
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
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Casualty of the Cold War
September 26, 1991
The Polk Conspiracy: Murder and Cover-up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk
by Kati Marton
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Pacem in Terris
October 11, 1990
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Guest of the Age
August 17, 1989
Sketches From A Life by George F. Kennan
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy by David Mayers
Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy by Anders Stephanson
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A Gent of Dissent
June 29, 1989
The Price of Empire
by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman
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The Strange Case of William Bullitt
September 29, 1988
So Close to Greatness: A Biography of William C. Bullitt by Will Brownell, by Richard N. Billings
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Looking Backward
November 6, 1986
Thinking in Time:The Uses of History for Decision-Makers by Richard E. Neustadt, by Ernest R. May
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The Ancient Mariner
May 30, 1985
No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon
A Vietcong Memoir by Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, by Doan Van Toai
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Where Modern Politics Began
February 16, 1984
The Warrior and the Priest by John Milton Cooper Jr.
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On the Brink of Dulles
October 21, 1982
John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power by Ronald W. Pruessen
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Ike Plus Eight
February 18, 1982
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Dulles and Eisenhower
January 21, 1982
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Two Cheers for Ike
September 24, 1981
The Eisenhower Diaries edited by Robert H. Ferrell
The Declassified Eisenhower by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eisenhower and the Cold War by Robert A. Divine
Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Eisenhower the President: Crucial Days, 1951-1960 by William Bragg Ewald Jr.
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants by Russell F. Weigley
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Lippmann & Schwimmer
April 2, 1981
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Seduction and Betrayal
September 25, 1980
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All in the Family
August 14, 1980
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy by Herbert S. Parmet
Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss
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Perfectly Clear
June 26, 1980
The Real War by Richard Nixon
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Rough Passage
March 23, 1978
The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
by Walter LaFeber
The Truth about the Panama Canal by Denison Kitchel
Surrender in Panama: The Case Against the Treaty by Philip M. Crane
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Russia, the West, and the Rest
July 14, 1977
The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy by George F. Kennan
Revolution in the Third World by Gerard Chaliand
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All About Henry
September 19, 1974
Kissinger by Marvin Kalb, by Bernard Kalb
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Was This Empire Necessary?
August 8, 1974
The Imperial Republic: The United States and the World, 1945-1973 by Raymond Aron
“Lessons” of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy by Ernest R. May
The Logic of World Power: An Inquiry into the Origins, Currents, and Contradictions of World Politics by Franz Schurmann
The Cold Warriors: A Policy-Making Elite
by John C. Donovan
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A Cold War Battle
October 18, 1973
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The Good Old Days
June 14, 1973
Peace in the Balance by Eugene V. Rostow
Power and Equilibrium in the 1970s by Alistair Buchan
The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War by Robert James Maddox
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
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The Power and Old Glory
May 31, 1973
A New Isolationism: Threat or Promise? by Robert W. Tucker
The Limits of Power by Joyce Kolko, by Gabriel Kolko
Witness to History by Charles E. Bohlen
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Cooling It
October 19, 1972
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham T. Allison
The Cuban Missile Crisis edited with commentary by Robert A. Divine
Cold War and Counter-revolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy by Richard J. Walton
The Kennedy Doctrine by Louise Fitzsimons
The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy by Alexander George, by David Hall, by William Simons
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The New Hustle in Haiti
June 29, 1972
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Who Started the Cold War?
May 18, 1972
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Did Anyone Start the Cold War?
September 2, 1971
Condemned to Freedom by William Pfaff
The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy by Robert W. Tucker
Promises to Keep by Chester Bowles
Architects of Illusion by Lloyd Gardner
Yalta by Diane Shaver Clemens
America and Russia in a Changing World by W. Averell Harriman
From Trust to Terror by Herbert Feis
The Yalta Myths by Athan Theoharis
The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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The Kennedy Fantasy
November 19, 1970
The Kennedy Legacy by Theodore Sorensen
American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy Interviews by Jean Stein, edited by George Plimpton
No Hail, No Farewell by Louis Heren
Who Needs the Democrats? by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Commissar of the Cold War
February 12, 1970
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
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Letter from Oakland: The Panthers
September 11, 1969
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An Exchange on the Missile Crisis
May 8, 1969
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Endgame
March 13, 1969
Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy, with Introductions by Harold Macmillan, by Robert S. McNamara
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Inside Dope
February 13, 1969
The Case Against Congress by Drew Pearson, by Jack Anderson
Behind the Lines: The World of Drew Pearson by Herman Klurfeld
Memoirs by Arthur Krock
JFK and LBJ by Tom Wicker
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Up Against the Wall in Prague
September 26, 1968
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Impossible Dreams
September 12, 1968
Intervention and Revolution: The United States in the Third World by Richard J. Barnet
The Discipline of Power by George W. Ball
The Insecurity of Nations by Charles Yost
Gulliver’s Troubles, Or the Setting of American Foreign Policy by Stanley Hoffmann
Conditions of World Order edited by Stanley Hoffmann
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Letter from Havana
April 11, 1968
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Greece
February 15, 1968
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Man Without a Country
January 4, 1968
Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan
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Letter from Greece
November 9, 1967
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Color Clash
June 29, 1967
The Race War by Ronald Segal
Color and Race
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Recent Fiction
April 6, 1967
American Strategy: A New Perspective by Urs Schwarz
Escalation and the Nuclear Option by Bernard Brodie
Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling
On the Uses of Military Power in the Nuclear Age by Klaus Knorr
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A Visit to Washington
October 6, 1966
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The Day They Buried NATO
July 28, 1966
Europe’s Future: The Grand Alternatives by David P. Calleo
Germany and the Atlantic Alliance
by James L. Richardson
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War Games
June 9, 1966
The Liddell Hart Memoirs: 1895-1938
Deterrence and Strategy by André Beaufre, translated by Major-General B.H. Barry
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The Magician
March 17, 1966
The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle by David Schoenbrun
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Mr. Clean
January 6, 1966
Waging Peace: 1956-1961 by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Doomsday
November 25, 1965
The Decision to Drop the Bomb by Len Giovannitti, by Fred Freed
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam by Gar Alperovitz
Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont
Hiroshima Plus 20 prepared by The New York Times, Introduction by John W. Finney
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Up the Doomsday Ladder
July 15, 1965
On EscalationMetaphors and Scenarios by Herman Kahn
Nuclear War: The Impending Strategic Deadlock by Neville Brown
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Hitting the SAC
May 20, 1965
Design for Survival by General Thomas S. Power
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Atomic Wedlock
February 25, 1965
The Great Debate: Theories of Nuclear Strategy by Raymond Aron, translated by Ernst Pawel