Subjects include: Continuing Globalism, Middle East Tensions, Eisenhower Diplomacy, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis and other crises in Latin American, U.S.-African Policies, and Arms Talks. and Beginnings of Détente.
Some titles in Part A also appear in this section of the bibliography.
Alexander, Charles C., Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961 (1975)
Alexander, Bevin, Korea: The First War We Lost (1987)
Allison, Graham, Essence of Decision (1971)
Ambrose, Stephen E., Nixon: the Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 (1987)
________, Eisenhower: The President (1984)
________, Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (1981)
Anderson, David L., Trapped by Success: the Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-1961 (1991)
Appleman, Roy Edgar, Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur (1989)
Bachrack, Stanley D., The Committee of One Million: "China Lobby" Politics, 1953-1971 (1976)
Baily, Samuel L., The United States and the Development of South America, 1945-1975(1976)
Ball, Howard, Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s (1986)
Ball, Moya Ann, Vietnam on the Potomac (1992)
Beschloss, Michael R., Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997)
Benjamin, Jules R., The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: an Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation (1990)
Berdal, Mats. R., The United States, Norway and the Cold War, 1954-1960. (1997)
Berman, Larry, Lyndon Johnson's War (1989)
________, Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam (1983)
________, William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist (1988)
Beschloss, Michael R., Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair (1986)
________, Kennedy and Khrushchev: The Crisis Years (1991)
________, Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997)
Bill, James A., The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988)
________, George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy (1997)
Billings-Yun, Melanie, Decision against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954 (1988)
Blacker, Coit, D., Reluctant Warriors: The U.S., the Soviet Union, and Arms Control (1987)
Blair, Clay, The Forgotten War (1988)
Blight, James G. and David A. Welch, On the Brink (1989)
Blight James G. Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invastion (1998)
Blum, Robert M., Drawing the Line: The Origin of the American Containment Policy in East Asia (1982)
Boll, Michael M., National Security Planning: Roosevelt Through Reagan (1988)
Borden, William S., The Pacific Alliance: U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947-1955 (1984)
Bowie, Robert and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: Eisenhower's Strategy for National Security (1997)
Brands, H.W., Jr., Cold Warriors: Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy (1988)
________, The Specter of Neutralism: the United States and the Emergence of the Third World, 1947-1960 (1990)
________, Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961 (1991)
________, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995)
Briggs, Philip J., Making American Foreign Policy: President-Congress Relations from the Second World War to Vietnam (1991)
Brinkley, Douglas, Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-1971 (1992)
Broadwater, Jeff, Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade (1992)
Buckley, Roger, Occupation Diplomacy (1982) [Japan]
________, U.S.- Japan Alliance Diplomacy, 1945-1990 (1992)
Burns, William J., Economic Aid and American Policy Toward Egypt, 1955-1981 (1985)
Caldwell, Dan, American-Soviet Relations: From 1947 to the Nixon-Kissinger Grand Design (1981)
Callahan, David, Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War (1990)
Campbell, John C., Successful Negotiation: Trieste, 1954 (1976)
Caridi, Ronald, The Korean War and American Politics (1969)
Chang, Gordon, Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 (1990)
Christensen, Thomas J., Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategies, Domestic Mobilizationk and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958 (1996)
Cohen, Warren I., Dean Rusk (1980)
Coker, Christopher, The United States and South Africa, 1968-1985 (1986)
Cook, Blanche Wiesen, The Declassified Eisenhower (1981)
Cooper, Chester L., The Lion's Last Roar: Suez, 1956 (1978)
Crankshaw, Edward and Strobe Talbott, Khrushchev Remembers (1970)
Cronin, Audrey Kurth, Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945-1955(1986)
Cumings, Bruce, Child of Conflict: the Korean-American Relationship 1943-1953 (1983)
Cumings, Bruce, Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 (1981)
Cumings, Bruce, Origins of the Korean War: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950(1990)
DeBenedetti, Charles with Charles Chatfield, An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era (1990)
Detzer, David, The Brink (1979) [Cuban Missile Crisis]
DiLeo, David L., George Ball, Vietnam and the Rethinking of Containment (1991)
Divine, Robert A., Blowing on the Wind: The Nuclear Test Ban Debate, 1954-1960 (1978)
Dobbs, Charles M., The Unwanted Symbol: American Foreign Policy, the Cold War, and Korea, 1945-1950 (1981)
Duignan, Peter and L. H. Gann, The United States and Africa: A History (1984)
Duiker, William J., Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam (1995)
Emerson, Rupert, Africa and the United States' Policy (1967)
Engelmann, Larry, Oral History of the Fall of Saigon (1990)
Fifield, Russell H., Americans in Southeast Asia: The Roots of Commitment (1973)
Foot, Rosemary, The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (1985)
Freiberger, Steven Z., Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East 1953-1957 (1992)
Gaddis, John Lewis, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987)
__________, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982)
Gambone, Michael D. Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953-1961 (1997)
Gardner, Lloyd C., Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954 (1988)
Garthoff, Raymond L., Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis, (rev. ed., 1989)
George, Alexander L. and Richard Smoke, Deterrence in American Foreign Policy (1974)
Gerson, Louis, John Foster Dulles (1968)
Gleijeses, Piero, The Dominican Crisis (1978)
________, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 (1991)
Graebner, Norman A., The New Isolationism (1956)
Greenstein, Fred I., Our Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as a Leader (1982)
Griffith, Robert, The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate (1987)
Grose, Peter, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles (1994)
Grosser, Alfred, The Western Alliance (1975)
Guhin, Michael, John Foster Dulles (1972)
Gurtov, Melvin, The First Vietnam Crisis, 1953-1954 (1967)
Hahn, Peter L., The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956 (1991)
Haines, Gerald K., The Americanization of Brazil: a Study of U.S. Cold War Diplomacy in the Third World, 1945-1954 (1989)
Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest (1972)
Hanrieder, Wolfram, Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy (1989)
Harrison, Michael M., The Reluctant Ally: France and Atlantic Security (1963)
Hart, Robert A., The Eccentric Tradition: American Diplomacy in the Far East (1976)
Herken, Gregg F., Counsels of War (1985)
Herring, George C., America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (1979; 1986; and 3rd ed., 1996)
Higgins, Trumbull, The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the Bay of Pigs (1987)
Holmes, The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order 1943-57 (1982)
Hoopes, Townsend, The Devil and John Foster Dulles (1973)
Huntington, Samuel P., The Common Defense: Strategic Programs in National Politics (1961) [Truman-Eisenhower era]
Hurewitz, J. C., Soviet-American Rivalry in the Middle East (1969)
Immerman, Richard H., The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention (1982)
________, John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (1990)
Iriye, Akira, The Cold War in Asia (1974)
Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made [Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, and McCoy] (1986)
James, D. Clayton, The Years of MacArthur (1985)
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, The CIA and American Democracy (1989)
Jiang, Arnold Ziangze, The United States and China (1988)
Johnson, Robert, Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition (1998)
Jones, Howard Palfrey, Indonesia: The Possible Dream (1971)
Kahin, George McTurnan, Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam (1986)
Kalb, Madeline, The Congo Cables: The Cold War in Africa from Eisenhower to Kennedy(1982)
Kaplan, Lawrence S., NATO and the United States (1988)
Kaplan, Lawrence S. and Denise Artand, Dien Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco American Relations, 1954-55 (1990)
Karnow, Stanley, In our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines (1989)
Kattenburg, Paul M., The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy, 1945-1975 (1980)
Katz, Milton S., Ban the Bomb: A History of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1957-1985 (1986)
Kaufman, Burton I., The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command (1986)
________, Trade and Aid: Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy, 1953-1961 (1982)
Khong, Yuen Foong, Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965 (1992)
Killen, Linda, The Soviet Union and the United States: A New Look at the Cold War (1989)
Kinnard, Douglas, President Eisenhower and Strategy Management: A Study in Defense Politics (1977)
________, The Secretary of Defense (1980)
________, The War Managers: American Generals Reflect on Vietnam (1977, 1991)
Kunz, Diane B., The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis (1992)
________, Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy (1997)
Kusnitz, Leonard A., Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: America's China Policy, 1949-1979 (1984)
Leacock, Ruth, Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969 (1990)
Lenczowski, George, American Presidents and the Middle East (1989)
Leonard, Thomas M., The United States and Central America, 1944-1949 (1984)
Lowe, Peter, The Origins of the Korean War (1986)
Luard, Evan, A History of the United Nations: V. 2: The Age of Decolonization, 1955-1965 (1989)
Lyon, Peter, Eisenhower (1974)
Mahoney, Richard D., JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983)
Marcus, Harold G., Ethiopia, Great Britain, and the United States, 1941-1974: The Politics of Empire (1983)
Matray, James Irving, The Reluctant Crusade: American Foreign Policy in Korea, 1941-1950 (1985)
May, Ernest R. and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis (1997)
Mayer, Frank, Adenauer and Kennedy: a Study in German-American Relations (1996)
Mayers, David, Cracking the Monolith: U.S. Policy Against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-55 (1986)
Mazuzan, George T., Warren R. Austin at the U.N., 1946-1953 (1977)
McAuliffe, Mary S., Crisis on the Left: Cold War Politics and American Liberals, 1947-1954 (1978)
MacDonald, Callum A., Korea: The War before Vietnam (1987)
McLellan, David S., Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (1976)
McMahon, Robert J., Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945-49 (1981)
Meredith, Martin, The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era (1985)
Merrill, Dennis, Bread and the Ballot: The U.S. and India's Economic Development 1947-63 (1992)
Meyer, Gail E., Egypt and the United States: The Formative Years (1980)
Morley, Morris H., Imperial State and Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba, 1952-1986 (1987)
Nash, Philip. The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 (1996)
Neff, Donald, Warriors at Suez (1981) [also examines relationship to eastern bloc crisis]
Neustadt, Richard E., Alliance Politics (1970)
Ninkovich, Frank, Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question Since 1945 (1988)
Noble, G. Bernard, Christain A. Herter (1970)
Noer, Thomas J., Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948-1968 (1985)
Nolan, Cathal J. Principled Diplomacy: Secuirty and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy (1993)
Oberdorfer, Don, Tet!: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War (1971)
Paige, Glenn D., The Korean Decision, June 24-30, 1950 (1968, 1975)
Painter, David S., Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-54 (1986)
Parmet, Herbert S., Richard Nixon and his America (1990) [sections on the "opening" to China, dialogue with Brezhnev, and SALT talks]
________, Eisenhower and the American Crusades (1972)
Persico, Joseph E., Casey: From the OSS to the CIA (1990)
Pogue, Forrest C., George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945-1959 (1987)
Porter, Bruce D., The U.S.S.R. in Third World Conflicts: Soviet Arms and Diplomacy in Local Wars, 1945-1980 (1984)
Porter, Gareth, A Peace Denied: The United States, Vietnam, and the Paris Agreement(1975)
Powers, Thomas, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979)
Pruessen, Ronald W., John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power (1982) [Dulles to 1952]
Quandt, William B., Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1976 (1977)
Rabe, Stephen G., Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticolonialism(1988)
Rabe, Stephen G., The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America (1998)
Randle, Robert F., Geneva 1954: The Settlement of the Indochinese War (1969)
Rearden, Steven L., The Evolution of American Strategic Doctrine: Paul H. Nitze and the Soviet Challenge (1984)
Rees, David, Korea: The Limited War (1964)
Richardson, James L., Germany and the Atlantic Alliance (1966)
Rose, Lisle A., Roots of Tragedy: The United States and the Struggle for Asia, 1945-1953 (1976)
Rotter, Andrew J., The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia (1987)
Rubenberg, Cheryl, Israel and the American National Interest (1986)
Rubin, Barry, Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran (1980)
________, Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign Policy (1985)
________, The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict (1981)
Ryan, Paul B., First Line of Defense: The U.S. Navy since 1945 (1981)
Safran, Nadav, From War to War: The Arab-Israeli Confrontation, 1948-1967 (1969)
Schaller, Michael, The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia (1985)
________, Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General (1989)
Schandler, Herbert Y., The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam (1977)
Schlesinger, Stephen, Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala(1982)
Schoenbaum, Thomas J., Waging Peace and War: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson Years (1988)
Schonberger, Howard B., Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 (1988)
Schraeder, Peter J., United States Foreign Policy toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis, and Change (1994)
Schulzinger, Robert D., The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs: The History of the Council on Foreign Relations (1984)
Schwartz, Thomas Alan, America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (1991)
Shick, Jack M., The Berlin Crisis, 1958-62 (1972)
Siracusa, Joseph M., Rearming for the Cold War: Paul Nitze, the H-Bomb and the Origins of a Soviet First Strike (1983)
Slater, Jerome, Intervention and Negotiation: The United States and the Dominican Revolution (1970)
Slusser, Robert M., The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (1973)
Small, Melvin, Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves (1988)
Smist, Frank J., Jr., Congress Oversees the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947-1989 (1991)
Smith, Jean Edward, The Defense of Berlin (1963)
Smith, Wayne S., The Closest of Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic Account of U.S.- Cuban Relations since 1957 (1987)
Snetsinger, John, Truman, the Jewish Vote, and the Creation of Irael (1974)
Spanier, John W., The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War (1965)
Spector, Ronald, After Tet: The Bloodiest Year (1992)
Spiegel, Steven, L., The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan (1985)
Spurr, Russell, Enter the Dragon: China's Involvement in the Korean War (1988)
Stares, Paul B., The Militarization of Space: U.S. Policy, 1945-1984 (1985)
Stolper, Thomas E., China, Taiwan, and the Offshore Islands (1985)
Stookey, Robert W., America and the Arab States (1975)
Talbott, Strobe, The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace (1988)
Tananbaum, Duane, The Bricker Amendment Controversy: A Test of Eisenhower's Political Leadership (1988)
Tent, James F., Mission on the Rhine (1983)
Thompson, Robert Smith, The Missiles of October: The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1992)
Toland, John, In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953 (1991)
Urquhart, Brian, A Life in Peace and War (1987)
Walker, William O., III, Opium and Foreign Policy (1991)
Wandycz, Piotr S., The United States and Poland (1980)
Ward, Patricia Dawson, The Threat of Peace (1979)
Weihmiller, Gordon R., U. S.-Soviet Summits: An Account of East-West Diplomacy at the Top, 1955-1985 (1985)
Weisberger, Bernard A., Cold War, Cold Peace: The U. S. and Russia Since 1945 (1984)
Weissman, Stephan R., American Foreign Policy in the Congo, 1960-1964 (1974)
Welch, Richard E., Response to Revolution: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 (1985)
Whelan, Richard, Drawing the Line: the Korean War, 1950-1953 (1990)
Whiting, Allena, China Crosses the Yalu (1960)
Wilson, Evan M., Decision on Palestine: How the U.S. Came to Recognize Israel (1979)
Wirtz, James J., The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War (1991)
Wittner, Lawrence S., Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941-1960(1974)
Wood, Bryce, The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy (1985)
Woods, Randall B., J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy (1997)
Wooley, Wesley T., Alternatives to Anarchy: American Supranationalism since World War II (1988)
Wyden, Peter, Bay of Pigs (1979)
Yergin, Daniel, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991)
York, Herbert F., The Advisors (1975)
Young, Kenneth T., Negotiating with the Chinese Communists (1968)
Zimmerman, William, Soviet Perspectives on International Relations, 1956-1967 (1969)
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