Book Review: The Forty Years War
February 2nd, 2010 by zen
The Forty Years War is a book that deserves to have a much higher public profile as Colodny and Shachtman are marshalling new evidence to challenge conventional interpretations of late Cold War political history and foreign policy.
Strongly recommended.
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Seerov:
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:55 am
Surprisingly (to me anyway) Kraemer was a Lutheran.
zen:
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Yes. The man was culturally Prussianized to the core it would seem, right down to wearing a monocle.
JV:
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 am
Sounds good. I will have to add it to the pile. Is this the first book about the end of Baby Boomers? Their impact from when they could first vote, Nixon, through their Presidents, Clinton & Bush, and control of culture until their power started to wane with the election of BB? The interesting comparison would be to compare this story of elected political power vs. the cultural power that the Baby Boomers exercised when they retreated enmass from the ballot box after Nixon won to focus on society. The intersection being "The Culture War" of recent as the generations change and flail about seeking the new norm.