http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/11/27#cold-war <P>Yet another inadequate placeholder <P>Aspects of particular interest: how it shaped <em>domestic</em> developments in America; the cultural struggle aspect. <P>See also: <a href="america.html">the USA</a>; <a href="ussr.html">the USSR</a>; <a href="china-20th-century.html">China</a>; <a href="afghanistan.html">Afghanistan</a>; <a href="war.html">War</a>; <a href="manhattan-project.html">Nukes</a>; <a href="spies.html">Espionage</a> <ul>To read: <li>H. W. Brands, <cite>The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War</cite> <li>Barbara Barksdale Clowse, <cite>Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and tha National Defense Education Act of 1958</cite> <li>Campbell Craig, <cite>Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War</cite> <li>Mary L. Dudziak, <Cite>Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy</cite> <li>Robert D. English, <cite>Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War</cite> <li>Matthew Evangelista, <cite>Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War</cite> <li>John Fousek, <cite>To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War</cite> <li>Jean Franco, <cite>The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War</cite> <li>Jeff Goodwin, <cite>No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991</cite> [<a href="http://www.cambridge.org/0521629489">Blurb</a>] <li>Greg Grandin, <cite>The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16376.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li>Mark N. Katz, <cite>The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World</cite> [1991] <li>John Krige, <cite>American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-11297-3">Blurb</a>] <li>Jennifer S. Light, <citE>From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1635.html">Blurb</a>] <li>William E. Odom, <citE>On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents</cite> [1992; "concludes that faulty notions of causation inform US policy in all strategies for counterinsurgency"!] <li>Edward E. Rice, <cite>Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6c6006rm">Online</a>] <li>Frances Stonor Saunders, <cite>The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters</cite> <li>David F. Schmitz, <cite>Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921--1965</cite> <li>Tom Vanderbilt, <cite>Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America</cite> <li>Martin Walker, <cite>The Cold War: A History</cite> <li>Odd Arne Westad, <cite>The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times</cite> [<a href="http://www.cambridge.org/0521853648">Blurb</a>] <li>Stephen J. Whitfield, <cite>The Culture of the Cold War</cite> [in the US] <li>Vladislav Zubok and Constantie Pleshakov, <cite>Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev</cite> </ul>