The Cold War at home and abroad : domestic politics and US foreign policy since 1945 /

"In The Cold War at Home and Abroad, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors and their...

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Group Author: Johns, Andrew L., 1968; Lerner, Mitchell B., 1968
Published: The University Press of Kentucky,
Publisher Address: Lexington, Kentucky :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace
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Summary: "In The Cold War at Home and Abroad, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors and their influence on the history of US foreign relations since 1945, ranging from elections and Congress's influence on policy to the role of religion and regionalism"--
Carrier Form: 322 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780813175737
0813175739
Index Number: E743
CLC: D871.29
Call Number: D871.29/C688
Contents: Introduction. Janus, Tocqueville, and the world : the nexus of domestic politics and US foreign policy / Andrew L. Johns -- Fact givers or fact makers? : the dilemma of information-making in the State Department's Office of Public Affairs during the Truman administration / Autumn Lass -- From hawk to dawk : Congressman Melvin Laird and the Vietnam War, 1952-1968 / David L. Prentice -- Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson and the intersection between domestic politics and foreign relations in the postwar era / Christopher Foss -- Religious pluralism, domestic politics, and the emerging Jewish-evange