Shattered Peace

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"Daniel Yergin's Shattered Peace is beautifully written, exhaustively researched, and several of its central themes — such as the ' Riga axioms, ' development of German policy, and the growth of the National Security State under Truman's direction — will henceforth be at the center of the controversy over the Cold War's origins."
Walter LaFeber author of America, Russia and the Cold War
"Shattered Peace explores the American side of the tangled events which led to the Cold War with painstaking thoroughness, lucidity and literary grace. While I cannot endorse some of the author's conclusions, I believe the story he tells should be of absorbing interest to those seriously concerned about the past and future relations between this country and the Soviet Union."
Adam Ulam
author of Stahn, Expansion and Coexistence, The Rivals
"There have been many accounts of the origins of the Cold War, but never one so richly detailed, so powerfully argued, so brilliantly illuminating, and so... Tovább

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"Daniel Yergin's Shattered Peace is beautifully written, exhaustively researched, and several of its central themes — such as the ' Riga axioms, ' development of German policy, and the growth of the National Security State under Truman's direction — will henceforth be at the center of the controversy over the Cold War's origins."
Walter LaFeber author of America, Russia and the Cold War
"Shattered Peace explores the American side of the tangled events which led to the Cold War with painstaking thoroughness, lucidity and literary grace. While I cannot endorse some of the author's conclusions, I believe the story he tells should be of absorbing interest to those seriously concerned about the past and future relations between this country and the Soviet Union."
Adam Ulam
author of Stahn, Expansion and Coexistence, The Rivals
"There have been many accounts of the origins of the Cold War, but never one so richly detailed, so powerfully argued, so brilliantly illuminating, and so scrupulously fair. Shattered Peace is indispensable to an understanding of the men and forces that shaped the world we live in."
Ronald Steel author of Pax Americana
ISBN 0-395-24670-9
In 1945, nobody knew that by 1947 the United States and the Soviet Union, so recently allied against Hitler, would give a devastated world something called the Cold War. Nor did the term "national security" mean anything to the public in 1945. By 1947, it did.
How did the fundamental transformation of American life come about? What perceptions and mis-perceptions governed Kennan, Acheson, and Truman? What did the Soviet Union want and what was it capable of getting? How did the Pentagon, key sectors in the economy, and the universities mobilize and pursue shared interests? Was the American policy elite blind to a better road not taken? Thirty years ago, what kind of arguments were being advanced for a detente with the Russians?
Based on massive research into newly opened archives and private papers. Shattered Peace creates a frame of analysis and develops a narrative that will become the definitive work on the Cold War. And today the moral dilemmas and policy choices of the 1940s still influence and confront us.
Shattered Peace confirms none of the hardline prejudices of either revisionist or cold warrior. But the important and complex truth is here.
DANIEL YERGIN graduated in 1968 from Yale, where he was a founding editor of the New !ournal. He was a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, from which he received a Ph.D. in international relations in 1974. Since then he has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, and in 1976 he also became a lecturer at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Yergin is a contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly, and writes regularly on international politics for the New Republic. His articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine and many other magazines and newspapers in North America and Europe.
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