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==Bibliography==
* Bacevich, Andrew J., ed. ''The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0231131585/ref=sib_dp_bod_ex?ie=UTF8&p=S00D#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Ball, S. J. ''The Cold War: An International History, 1947–1991'' (1998), British perspective; short summary; [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-cold-war-an-international-history-1947-1991-by-s-j-ball.jsp online edition]
* Boyle Peter G. ''American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism.'' 1993.
* Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century'' (1989)
* Crockatt Richard. ''The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991.'' (1995). popular history[http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Years-War-United-Politics/dp/0415135540/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967506&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Friedman, Norman. ''The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War''. (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Year-War-Conflict-Strategy-Cold/dp/1591142873/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967539&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Gaddis, John Lewis, ''The Cold War. A New History'', 2005. [http://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-New-History/dp/B000GUJH8A/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_0/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and text search]
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States. An Interpretative History'' 2nd ed. (1990)
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War'' (1987) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=100560159 online edition]
* Kegley Jr., Charles W. ed., ''The Long Postwar Peace.'' 1991
* Kort, Michael. ''The Columbia Guide to the Cold War'' (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Guide-Cold-War/dp/0231107730/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967647&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* LaFeber, Walter. ''America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1992'' 9th ed. (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/America-Russia-Cold-1945-2002-Updated/dp/0072849037/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_2_1/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and text search], liberal
* Leffler, Melvyn P. ''For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Mankind-United-States-Soviet/dp/0809097176/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191567573&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Lundestad, Geir. ''East, West, North, South: Major Developments in International Politics since 1945'' (1999). [http://www.amazon.com/East-West-North-South-International/dp/1412907489/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193964045&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Paterson, Thomas G. ''On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War.'' 1992. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98945969&oplinknum=8 online edition]; liberal[http://www.amazon.com/Every-Front-Making-Unmaking-Cold/dp/0393030601/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967604&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Powaski, Ronald E. ''The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=78888203 online edition]
* Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, ''Russia and the United States'' (1979), by Soviet historians
* Westad, Odd Arne ''The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/052170314X/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev'' (2007)
* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War'' (1996) [http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q=zubok&filter=all&start=1 20% excerpt and online search]
==National perspectives==
===Soviet ===
* Edmonds, Robin. ''Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years'' (1983)
* Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Litai Xue, ''Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Uncertain-Partners-Studies-Security-Control/dp/0804725217/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193675770&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Gorlizki, Yoram, and Oleg Khlevniuk. ''Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/read/105899376 online edition]
* Mastny, Vojtech. ''Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945'' (1979)
* Mastny, Vojtech. ''The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years'' (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Soviet-Insecurity-Stalin/dp/0195126599/ref=sr_1_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193676128&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]; [http://www.questia.com/read/98422373 online complete edition]
* Nation, R. Craig. ''Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991'' (1992)
* Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, ''Russia and the United States'' (1979), by Soviet historians
* Taubman, William. ''Khrushchev: The Man and His Era'' (2004), Pulitzer Prize; [http://www.amazon.com/Khrushchev-Man-His-William-Taubman/dp/0393324842/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191567469&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Ulam, Adam B. ''Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1973'', 2nd ed. (1974)
* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War'' (1996) [http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q=zubok&filter=all&start=1 20% excerpt and online search]
* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev'' (2007)
===American===
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy'' (1982) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98423566 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Containment-Critical-Appraisal-American/dp/019517447X/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_2_0/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and text search]
* Hogan, Michael J. ''America in the World: The Historiography of US Foreign Relations since 1941'' (1996), scholarly articles reprinted from the journal ''Diplomatic History'' [http://www.amazon.com/America-World-Historiography-Foreign-Relations/dp/0521498074/ref=sr_1_10/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193675770&sr=1-10 excerpt and text search]
* Leffler, Melvyn P. ''For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War'' (2007)
* Lewis, Adrian R. ''The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Culture-War-Military-Operation/dp/0415979757/ref=sr_1_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193675770&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Paterson, Thomas G. ''Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan'' (1988), liberal
===British ===
* Anderson Terry H. ''The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947.'' (1981)
* Bullock, Alan. ''Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951.'' 1983, on British policy
* Clarke, Bob. ''Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War '' (2005)
* Deighton Anne. "The 'Frozen Front': The Labour Government, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947," ''International Affairs'' 65, 1987: 449-465.
* Young, John W. ''Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-5'' Clarendon Press, 1996 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9663209 online edition]
===China===
* Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Litai Xue, ''Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Uncertain-Partners-Studies-Security-Control/dp/0804725217/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193675770&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Jian, Chen. ''Mao's China and the Cold War'' (2001)
* Jian, Chen. ''China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (2004)
* Roberts, Priscilla. ''Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War'' (2006)
* Ross, Robert S. ''Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989,'' Stanford University Press, 1995 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=92018683 online edition]
* Zhai, Qiang. ''China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/China-Vietnam-Wars-1950-1975-History/dp/0807848425/ref=sr_1_34/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193675671&sr=1-34 excerpt and text search]
===Europe===
* Allen, Debra J. ''The Oder-Neisse Line: The United States, Poland, and Germany in the Cold War'' (2003) 309 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Oder-Neisse-Line-Germany-Contributions-History/dp/0313323593/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967768&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Borhi, László. ''Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956'' (2004) 352 pages
*Clemens, Clay. ''Reluctant Realists: The Christian Democrats and West German Ostpolitik,'' Duke University Press, 1989 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23562235 online edition]
* Crace, Sylvia E. and John O. Crane. ''Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War,'' 1991
* Judt, Tony. ''Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945'', (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Postwar-History-Europe-Since-1945/dp/B000GUJHIA/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_2_2/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and text search]
* Naimark, Norman, and Leonid Gibianskii. ''Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949'' (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/Establishment-Communist-Regimes-Eastern-1944-1949/dp/0813335345/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967826&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Ninkovich, Frank. ''Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945'' (1988)
* Sarrotte, M.E. ''Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73'' The University of North Carolina Press, (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107437282 online edition]
* Turner, Henry Ashby. ''Germany from Partition to Reunification'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Partition-Reunification-Revised-Germanies/dp/0300053479/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967898&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
==Origins: to 1950==
* Anderson Terry H. ''The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947.'' (1981)
* Beisner, Robert L. ''Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Acheson-Life-Cold-War/dp/0195045785/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_0/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and text search]
* Bullock, Alan. ''Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951.'' 1983, on British policy
* Chen, Jian, ''China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (2004)
* Clemens, Diane Shaver. ''Yalta.'' 1970.
* Cumings, Bruce ''The Origins of the Korean War'' (2 vols., 1981–90), friendly to North Korea and hostile to US
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947'' (1972) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=89825298 online edition] [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.00094 online at ACLS e-books]
* Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Xue Litai , ''Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War'' (1993)
* Isaacson Walter, and Even Thomas. ''The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made. Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy.'' 1986.
* Leffler, Melvyn. ''A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War'' (1992). [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.00097 online at ACLS e-books], liberal
* Levering, Ralph, Vladamir Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe, and C. Earl Edmondson. ''Debating the Origins of the Cold War'' (2001), Americans debate non-Communist Russians
* Yonosuke Nagai and Akira Iriye, eds., ''The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.'' 1977
* Trachtenberg, Marc. ''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963'' (1999)
* Whitcomb, Roger S. ''The Cold War in Retrospect: The Formative Years'' Praeger Publishers, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=26243570 online edition]
==1950s and 1960s==
* Beschloss, Michael. ''Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years, 1960–63'' (1991)
* Beschloss Michael. ''Mayday: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the U-2 Affair'' 1986.
* Brands, H. W. ''Cold Warriors. Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy'' (1988), liberal
* Brands, H. W. ''The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power '' (1997)
* Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict'', New York: Praeger (1961)
* Divine, Robert A. ''Eisenhower and the Cold War'' (1981)
* Divine, Robert A. ed., ''The Cuban Missile Crisis'' 2nd ed. (1988)
* Duiker William J. ''U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina.'' 1994.
* Freedman, Lawrence. ''Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
* Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali. ''One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964'' (1997)
* Jian, Chen. ''Mao's China and the Cold War'' (2001)
* Kunz, Diane B. ''The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations during the 1960s'' (1994)
* Navratil, Jaromir. ''The Prague Spring 68´'' (1998)
* Mastny, Vojtech. ''The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years'' (1998), conservative
* Melanson, Richard A. and David Mayers, eds., ''Reevaluating Eisenhower. American Foreign Policy in the 1950s'' (1986)
* Paterson, Thomas G. ed., ''Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961–1963'' (1989).
* Reynolds, David, ed. ''The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives'' (1994)
* Williams, Kirrian. ''The Prague Spring and its Aftermath : Czechoslovak Politics, 1968–1970'' (1997)
===Korean War===
* Brune, Lester H. ed. ''The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/read/14647120 online edition]
* Jian, Chen. ''China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (1994) [http://www.questia.com/read/100020811 online edition]
* Stueck, Jr. William W. ''The Korean War: An International History'' (1995)
* Stueck, Jr. William. ''Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/read/99794818 online edition]
* Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Korean War'' (2002)
==Vietnam==
* Anderson, David L. ''Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War'' (2004).
* Berman, Larry. ''Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate'' (1991). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102078651 online edition]
* Freedman, Lawrence. ''Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
* Herring, George C''. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975'' (4th ed 2001), most widely used short history.
* Kahin, George McTurnan. ''Intervention: how America became involved in Vietnam'' (1986) [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.02216 online at ACLS e-books]
* Karnow, Stanley. ''Vietnam: A History'' (1983), popular history by journalist; strong on Saigon's plans.
* Kutler, Stanley ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (1996). essays by experts
* Lewy, Guenter. ''America in Vietnam'' (1978), conservative defends U.S. actions.
* McMahon, Robert J. ''Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays'' (1995) textbook.
* Schulzinger, Robert D. ''Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975.'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59258841&oplinknum=2 online edition]
* Tucker, Spencer. ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (1998) 3 vol. reference set; also one-volume abridgement (2001).
* Tucker, Spencer. ''Vietnam.'' (1999) 226pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103499126# online edition]
* Vandiver, Frank E. ''Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars'' (1997)
* ''The Pentagon Papers'' (Gravel ed. 5 vol 1971); combination of narrative and secret documents compiled by Pentagon. [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent1.html excerpts]
==Détente: 1969–1979==
* see also [[Henry Kissinger]]
* Ash, Timothy Garton. ''In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent'' (1993)
*Clemens, Clay. ''Reluctant Realists: The Christian Democrats and West German Ostpolitik,'' Duke University Press, 1989 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23562235 online edition]
* Dallek, Robert. ''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Nixon-Kissinger-Partners-Robert-Dallek/dp/0060722312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577632&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Edmonds, Robin. ''Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years'' (1983)
* Garthoff, Raymond. ''Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan'' 2nd ed (1994), detailed narrative by a liberal [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=29069917 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Detente-Confrontation-American-Soviet-Relations-Reagan/dp/0815730411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211578168&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hanhimäki, Jussi. ''The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy,'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108656972 online edition]
* Isaacson, Walter. ''Kissinger'' (1992); [http://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577598&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Litwak, Robert S. ''Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976'' (1986)
* Nelson, Keith L. ''The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam'' (1995)
* Ross, Robert S. ''Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989,'' Stanford University Press, 1995 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=92018683 online edition]
* Sarrotte, M.E. ''Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73'' The University of North Carolina Press, (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107437282 online edition]
* Suri, Jeremi. ''Henry Kissinger and the American Century'' (2007)
* Suri, Jeremi. ''Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.'' (2003), focus on student revolts of 1968 [http://www.amazon.com/Power-Protest-Global-Revolution-Detente/dp/0674017633/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211578729&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Ulam, Adam B. ''Dangerous Relations. The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970–1982'' (1983)
===Primary sources and memoirs===
* Arbatov, Georgi. ''The System: An Insider's Life in Soviet Politics'' (1993)
* Kissinger, Henry. ''White House Years'' (1979); ''Years of Upheaval'' (1982); ''Years of Renewal'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Years-Renewal-Henry-Kissinger/dp/075675383X/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577632&sr=8-16 excerpt and text search]
* Nixon, Richard. ''RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon'' (1981) [http://www.amazon.com/RN-Memoirs-Richard-Nixon/dp/0671707418/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577855&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
==Second Cold War: 1979–1986==
[[Image:Decline1978.jpg|thumb|290px|The nation feared it was losing its world power, as this magazine cover shows, Nov. 1978]]
* Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981'' (1983);
* Edmonds, Robin. ''Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years'' (1983)
* Mower, A. Glenn Jr. ''Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: The Carter and Reagan Experiences'' ( 1987),
* Smith, Gaddis. ''Morality, Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years'' (1986).
* Westad, O. A., ''The Fall of Detente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years'' (1997)
==End of Cold War: 1986–1991==
* Beschloss, Michael, and Strobe Talbott. ''At the Highest Levels:The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War'' (1993)
* Bialer, Seweryn and Michael Mandelbaum, eds. ''Gorbachev's Russia and American Foreign Policy'' (1988).
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/United-States-End-Cold-Reconsiderations/dp/0195085515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930854&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Garthoff, Raymond. ''The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War'' (1994), detailed narrative [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Transition-American-Soviet-Relations-Cold/dp/0815730608/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930894&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hogan, Michael ed. ''The End of the Cold War. Its Meaning and Implications'' (1992) articles from ''Diplomatic History'' online at JSTOR; [http://www.amazon.com/End-Cold-War-Meaning-Implications/dp/052143128X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930923&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Kyvig, David ed. ''Reagan and the World'' (1990), essays by scholars; [http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-World-David-E-Kyvig/dp/0275935655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930956&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Matlock, Jack F. ''Autopsy of an Empire'' (1995) by Reagan's very well informed ambassador to Moscow
* Matlock, Jack F. "The End of the Cold War," ''Harvard International Review,'' Vol. 23, 2001 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000901782 online edition]
* Matlock, Jack F. ''Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Gorbachev-How-Cold-Ended/dp/0679463232/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930989&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
* Shultz, George P. ''Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State'' (1993), by Reagan's Secretary of State
* Pons, S., Romero, F., ''Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War: Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations'', (2005)
* Wallander, Celeste A. "Western Policy and the Demise of the Soviet Union," ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 5.4 (2003) 137-177 in [[Project Muse]]
* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Failed-Empire-Soviet-Gorbachev-History/dp/0807830984/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930989&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
==Intelligence==
* Aldrich, Richard J. ''The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence'' (2002).
* Ambrose, Stephen E. ''Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Intelligence Establishment'' (1981).
* Andrew, Christopher and Vasili Mitrokhin. ''The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB'' (1999)
** Mitrokhin. Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. ''The Mitrokhin Archive'' (1999). vol 1, on KGB
* Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. ''KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev'' (1990).
* Bogle, Lori, ed. ''Cold War Espionage and Spying'' (2001), essays
* Dorril, Stephen. ''MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service'' (2000).
* Garthoff, Raymond L. "Foreign Intelligence and the Historiography of the Cold War." ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 2004 6(2): 21-56. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: Project Muse and Ebsco
* Gates, Robert M. ''From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story Of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War'' (1997)
* Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (1999).
* Helms, Richard. ''A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency'' (2003)
* Koehler, John O. ''Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police'' (1999)
* Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. ''Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War'' (1997).
* Prados, John. ''Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II'' (1996)
* Richelson, Jeffrey T. ''Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea.'' (2006). 702 pp.
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* Sarrotte, M.E. ''Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73'' The University of North Carolina Press, (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107437282 online edition]
* Turner, Henry Ashby. ''Germany from Partition to Reunification'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Partition-Reunification-Revised-Germanies/dp/0300053479/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967898&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
==Origins: to 1950==
* Anderson Terry H. ''The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947.'' (1981)
* Beisner, Robert L. ''Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Acheson-Life-Cold-War/dp/0195045785/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_0/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and text search]
* Bullock, Alan. ''Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951.'' 1983, on British policy
* Chen, Jian, ''China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (2004)
* Clemens, Diane Shaver. ''Yalta.'' 1970.
* Cumings, Bruce ''The Origins of the Korean War'' (2 vols., 1981–90), friendly to North Korea and hostile to US
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947'' (1972) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=89825298 online edition] [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.00094 online at ACLS e-books]
* Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Xue Litai , ''Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War'' (1993)
* Isaacson Walter, and Even Thomas. ''The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made. Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy.'' 1986.
* Leffler, Melvyn. ''A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War'' (1992). [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.00097 online at ACLS e-books], liberal
* Levering, Ralph, Vladamir Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe, and C. Earl Edmondson. ''Debating the Origins of the Cold War'' (2001), Americans debate non-Communist Russians
* Yonosuke Nagai and Akira Iriye, eds., ''The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.'' 1977
* Trachtenberg, Marc. ''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963'' (1999)
* Whitcomb, Roger S. ''The Cold War in Retrospect: The Formative Years'' Praeger Publishers, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=26243570 online edition]
==1950s and 1960s==
* Beschloss, Michael. ''Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years, 1960–63'' (1991)
* Beschloss Michael. ''Mayday: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the U-2 Affair'' 1986.
* Brands, H. W. ''Cold Warriors. Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy'' (1988), liberal
* Brands, H. W. ''The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power '' (1997)
* Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict'', New York: Praeger (1961)
* Divine, Robert A. ''Eisenhower and the Cold War'' (1981)
* Divine, Robert A. ed., ''The Cuban Missile Crisis'' 2nd ed. (1988)
* Duiker William J. ''U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina.'' 1994.
* Freedman, Lawrence. ''Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
* Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali. ''One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964'' (1997)
* Jian, Chen. ''Mao's China and the Cold War'' (2001)
* Kunz, Diane B. ''The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations during the 1960s'' (1994)
* Navratil, Jaromir. ''The Prague Spring 68´'' (1998)
* Mastny, Vojtech. ''The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years'' (1998), conservative
* Melanson, Richard A. and David Mayers, eds., ''Reevaluating Eisenhower. American Foreign Policy in the 1950s'' (1986)
* Paterson, Thomas G. ed., ''Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961–1963'' (1989).
* Reynolds, David, ed. ''The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives'' (1994)
* Williams, Kirrian. ''The Prague Spring and its Aftermath : Czechoslovak Politics, 1968–1970'' (1997)
===Korean War===
* Brune, Lester H. ed. ''The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/read/14647120 online edition]
* Jian, Chen. ''China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (1994) [http://www.questia.com/read/100020811 online edition]
* Stueck, Jr. William W. ''The Korean War: An International History'' (1995)
* Stueck, Jr. William. ''Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/read/99794818 online edition]
* Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Korean War'' (2002)
==Vietnam==
* Anderson, David L. ''Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War'' (2004).
* Berman, Larry. ''Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate'' (1991). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102078651 online edition]
* Freedman, Lawrence. ''Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
* Herring, George C''. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975'' (4th ed 2001), most widely used short history.
* Kahin, George McTurnan. ''Intervention: how America became involved in Vietnam'' (1986) [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.02216 online at ACLS e-books]
* Karnow, Stanley. ''Vietnam: A History'' (1983), popular history by journalist; strong on Saigon's plans.
* Kutler, Stanley ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (1996). essays by experts
* Lewy, Guenter. ''America in Vietnam'' (1978), conservative defends U.S. actions.
* McMahon, Robert J. ''Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays'' (1995) textbook.
* Schulzinger, Robert D. ''Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975.'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59258841&oplinknum=2 online edition]
* Tucker, Spencer. ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (1998) 3 vol. reference set; also one-volume abridgement (2001).
* Tucker, Spencer. ''Vietnam.'' (1999) 226pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103499126# online edition]
* Vandiver, Frank E. ''Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars'' (1997)
* ''The Pentagon Papers'' (Gravel ed. 5 vol 1971); combination of narrative and secret documents compiled by Pentagon. [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent1.html excerpts]
==Détente: 1969–1979==
* see also [[Henry Kissinger]]
* Ash, Timothy Garton. ''In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent'' (1993)
*Clemens, Clay. ''Reluctant Realists: The Christian Democrats and West German Ostpolitik,'' Duke University Press, 1989 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23562235 online edition]
* Dallek, Robert. ''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Nixon-Kissinger-Partners-Robert-Dallek/dp/0060722312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577632&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Edmonds, Robin. ''Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years'' (1983)
* Garthoff, Raymond. ''Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan'' 2nd ed (1994), detailed narrative by a liberal [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=29069917 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Detente-Confrontation-American-Soviet-Relations-Reagan/dp/0815730411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211578168&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hanhimäki, Jussi. ''The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy,'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108656972 online edition]
* Isaacson, Walter. ''Kissinger'' (1992); [http://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577598&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Litwak, Robert S. ''Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976'' (1986)
* Nelson, Keith L. ''The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam'' (1995)
* Ross, Robert S. ''Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989,'' Stanford University Press, 1995 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=92018683 online edition]
* Sarrotte, M.E. ''Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73'' The University of North Carolina Press, (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107437282 online edition]
* Suri, Jeremi. ''Henry Kissinger and the American Century'' (2007)
* Suri, Jeremi. ''Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.'' (2003), focus on student revolts of 1968 [http://www.amazon.com/Power-Protest-Global-Revolution-Detente/dp/0674017633/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211578729&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Ulam, Adam B. ''Dangerous Relations. The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970–1982'' (1983)
===Primary sources and memoirs===
* Arbatov, Georgi. ''The System: An Insider's Life in Soviet Politics'' (1993)
* Kissinger, Henry. ''White House Years'' (1979); ''Years of Upheaval'' (1982); ''Years of Renewal'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Years-Renewal-Henry-Kissinger/dp/075675383X/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577632&sr=8-16 excerpt and text search]
* Nixon, Richard. ''RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon'' (1981) [http://www.amazon.com/RN-Memoirs-Richard-Nixon/dp/0671707418/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211577855&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
==Second Cold War: 1979–1986==
[[Image:Decline1978.jpg|thumb|290px|The nation feared it was losing its world power, as this magazine cover shows, Nov. 1978]]
* Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981'' (1983);
* Edmonds, Robin. ''Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years'' (1983)
* Mower, A. Glenn Jr. ''Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: The Carter and Reagan Experiences'' ( 1987),
* Smith, Gaddis. ''Morality, Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years'' (1986).
* Westad, O. A., ''The Fall of Detente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years'' (1997)
==End of Cold War: 1986–1991==
* Beschloss, Michael, and Strobe Talbott. ''At the Highest Levels:The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War'' (1993)
* Bialer, Seweryn and Michael Mandelbaum, eds. ''Gorbachev's Russia and American Foreign Policy'' (1988).
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/United-States-End-Cold-Reconsiderations/dp/0195085515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930854&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Garthoff, Raymond. ''The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War'' (1994), detailed narrative [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Transition-American-Soviet-Relations-Cold/dp/0815730608/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930894&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hogan, Michael ed. ''The End of the Cold War. Its Meaning and Implications'' (1992) articles from ''Diplomatic History'' online at JSTOR; [http://www.amazon.com/End-Cold-War-Meaning-Implications/dp/052143128X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930923&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Kyvig, David ed. ''Reagan and the World'' (1990), essays by scholars; [http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-World-David-E-Kyvig/dp/0275935655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930956&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Matlock, Jack F. ''Autopsy of an Empire'' (1995) by Reagan's very well informed ambassador to Moscow
* Matlock, Jack F. "The End of the Cold War," ''Harvard International Review,'' Vol. 23, 2001 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000901782 online edition]
* Matlock, Jack F. ''Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Gorbachev-How-Cold-Ended/dp/0679463232/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930989&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
* Shultz, George P. ''Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State'' (1993), by Reagan's Secretary of State
* Pons, S., Romero, F., ''Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War: Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations'', (2005)
* Wallander, Celeste A. "Western Policy and the Demise of the Soviet Union," ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 5.4 (2003) 137-177 in [[Project Muse]]
* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Failed-Empire-Soviet-Gorbachev-History/dp/0807830984/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930989&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
==Intelligence==
* Aldrich, Richard J. ''The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence'' (2002).
* Ambrose, Stephen E. ''Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Intelligence Establishment'' (1981).
* Andrew, Christopher and Vasili Mitrokhin. ''The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB'' (1999)
** Mitrokhin. Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. ''The Mitrokhin Archive'' (1999). vol 1, on KGB
* Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. ''KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev'' (1990).
* Bogle, Lori, ed. ''Cold War Espionage and Spying'' (2001), essays
* Dorril, Stephen. ''MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service'' (2000).
* Garthoff, Raymond L. "Foreign Intelligence and the Historiography of the Cold War." ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 2004 6(2): 21-56. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: Project Muse and Ebsco
* Gates, Robert M. ''From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story Of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War'' (1997)
* Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (1999).
* Helms, Richard. ''A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency'' (2003)
* Koehler, John O. ''Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police'' (1999)
* Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. ''Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War'' (1997).
* Prados, John. ''Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II'' (1996)
* Richelson, Jeffrey T. ''Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea.'' (2006). 702 pp.
* Rositzke, Harry. ''The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action'' (1988)
* Trahair, Richard C. S. ''Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies and Secret Operations'' (2004), by an Australian scholar; contains historiographical introduction [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106805285 online edition]
* Weinstein, Allen, and Alexander Vassiliev. ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era'' (1999).
==Economics and social Factors==
* Engerman, David C. "The Romance of Economic Development and New Histories of the Cold War.: ''Diplomatic History'' 2004 28(1): 23-54. Issn: 0145-2096 Fulltext: Ebsco
* Heiss, Mary Ann. "The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948–63" ''The Historian'', Vol. 65, (2003)
* Hogan, Michael J. ''The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952'' (1989)
* Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye. ''Power and Interdependence'' (3rd Edition) (2000)
* Kunz, Diane B. ''Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy'' (1997)
* May, Ernest R. ''American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68.'' (1993)
* Morgan, Patrick M. and Keith L. Nelson (eds); ''Re-Viewing the Cold War: Domestic Factors and Foreign Policy in the East-West Confrontation'' (1997)
==Arms Race, nuclear strategies, weapons systems==
* Arnold, Lorna, with Pyne, Katherine. ''Britain and the H-Bomb.'' Palgrave, 2001. 273 pp.
* Atkins, Stephen E. ''Historical Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy.'' Greenwood, 2000. 491 pp.
* Ball, Desmond. ''Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration'' (1980)
* Baylis, John. ''Ambiguity and Deterrence: British Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1964.'' Oxford U. Press, 1996. 495 pp.
* Betts, Richard K. ''Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance'' (Brookings Institution, 1987).
* Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin ''American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer'' (2006) Pulitzer Prize
* Bukharin, Oleg et al. ''Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces.'' MIT Press, 2001. 693 pp.
* Bundy, McGeorge. ''Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years'' (1988).
* Craig, Campbell. ''Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War.'' Columbia University Press. 1998. 216pp.
* Carlisle, Rodney P., ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age.'' Facts on File, 2001. 400 pp. numerous inaccuracies
* DeGroot, Gerard J. ''The Bomb: A Life'' (2006), focus on 1950s
* Freedman, Lawrence. ''The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy'' (1983)
* Gaddis, John Lewis, ed. ''Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945'' Oxford U. Press, 1999. 398 pp.
* Goldfischer, David. ''The Best Defense: Policy Alternatives for U.S. Nuclear Security from the 1950s to the 1990s.'' Cornell U. Press, 1993. 283 pp.
* Goodchild, Peter. ''Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove.'' Harvard U. Press, 2004. 469 pp
* Heuser, Beatrice. ''NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000.'' St. Martin's, 1997. 256 pp.
* Heuser, Beatrice. "The Development of Nato's Nuclear Strategy." ''Contemporary European History" 1995 4(1): 37-66. Issn: 0960-7773
* Hewlett, Richard, and Jack Holl. ''Atoms for Peace and War'' 3 vol; official history of Atomic Energy Commission (which built all the American bombs) [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.00537 1953-61 volume online]
* Holloway, David . ''Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1959–1956'' (1994)
* Jervis, Robert. ''The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon'' (Cornell University Press, 1989).
* Levine, Alan J. ''The Missile and Space Race.'' Praeger, 1994. 247 pp.
* Lebow, Richard Ned and Stein, Janice Gross. "Deterrence and the Cold War." ''Political Science Quarterly'' 1995 110(2): 157-181. Issn: 0032-3195 Fulltext: Jstor and Ebsco
* Mathers, Jennifer G. ''The Russian Nuclear Shield from Stalin to Yeltsin.'' St. Martin's, 2000. 227 pp.
* May, Ernest R. ''American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68.'' (1993)
* Miller, Jerry. ''Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers: How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation.'' Smithsonian Inst. Press, 2001. 296 pp.
* Peden, G. C. ''Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs'' (2007); 398 pp.
* Powaski, Ronald E. ''Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999.'' Oxford U. Press, (2000). 294 pp.
* Preble, Christopher A. ''John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap.'' Northern Illinois U. Press, 2004. 244 pp.
* Rhodes, Richard. ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb,'' Pulitzer Prize
* Snead, David L. ''The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War.'' Ohio State U. Press, 1999. 286 pp.
* Spinardi, Graham. ''From Polaris to Trident: The Development of U.S. Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1994. 253 pp.
* Stumpf, David K. ''Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program.'' U. of Arkansas Press, 2000. 320 pp.
* Terriff, Terry. ''The Nixon Administration and the Making of U.S. Nuclear Strategy.'' Cornell U. Press, 1995. 252 pp.
* Williamson, Samuel R., Jr. and Reardon, Steven L. ''The Origins of U.S. Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1953.'' St. Martin's, 1993. 224 pp.
===Space Race===
* Cadbury, Deborah. ''Space Race: The Epic Battle between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space'' (2006)
* Futrell, Robert Frank. ''Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic thinking in the United States Air Force: 1907-1960'' (1989)
* Logsdon, John M.. Robert William Smith, Roger D. Launius, ''Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite'' (2000)
* McDougall, Walter A. ''The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'' (ebooks 2001)
* Reeves, Robert. ''The Superpower Space Race: An Explosive Rivalry through the Solar System.'' 1994. 437 pp.
==Rhetoric, popular culture==
* Boyer, Paul S. ''By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age'' (1994)
* Carpenter, Charles A. ''Dramatists and the Bomb: American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964.'' Greenwood, 1999. 183 pp.
* Gery, John. ''Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness.'' U. Press of Florida, 1996. 235 pp.
* Henriksen, Margot A. ''Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age.'' U. of California Press, 1997. 451 pp.
* Kirby, Dianne ed. ''Religion and the Cold War'' (2003) 272 pp.
* Major, Patrick. "Future Perfect?: Communist Science Fiction in the Cold War." ''Cold War History'' 2003 4(1): 71-96. Issn: 1468-2745 Fulltext: in Ebsco
* Marsh, Rosalind J. ''Soviet Fiction Since Stalin: science, politics and literature'' (1986)
* McConachie, Bruce. ''American Theatre and the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962.'' University of Iowa Press, 2003; 364pp
* Medhurst, Martin J. ''Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology'' Michigan State University Press, 1997 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11078688 online edition]
* Miller, D. Quentin. ''John Updike and the Cold War: Drawing the Iron Curtain'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106110847 online edition]
* Mitter, Patrick Major Rana. ''Across the Blocs. Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History'' (2004) 150pp; [http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q=''The%20Iron%20Curtain%22&filter=all&start=1&t=jNpLfQ3aF3p-fYWfbfSXHg&sq=''The%20Iron%20Curtain%22 10% excerpt and text search]
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* Resch, John P., et al. ''Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront'' (2005), vol 4: 1946 to Present
* Schwartz, Richard Alan. ''Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945–1990'' (2000)
* Seed, David. ''American Science Fiction and the Cold War'' (2002)
* Shapiro Jerome F. ''Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film'' (2001)
* Stone, Albert E. ''Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb.'' (1994).
* Ventresca, Robert A. "The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society and the Cold War in Italy." ''Journal of Social History.'' Volume: 37#2 (2003) pp 439+. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002442955 online edition]
* Whitfield, Stephen J. ''The Culture of the Cold War'' (1996)
* Winkler, Allan M. ''Life under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom.'' (1993). 290 pp.
* Wittner, Lawrence S. ''The Struggle against the Bomb.'' 3 vol (1993-2003). antiwar movements in US and Europe
* Zeman, Scott C. "I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism and the Cold War Imagination," ''Journal of Popular Culture,'' August, 2004
==Primary sources: Documents and memoirs==
* Acheson, Dean . ''Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department'' (1992). [http://www.amazon.com/Present-Creation-Years-State-Department/dp/0393304124/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193967222&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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* Etzold, Thomas and John Lewis Gaddis, eds., ''Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945–1950'' (1978)
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* Khrushchev, Sergei. ''Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era,'' (1990)
* Kissinger, Henry, vol 1 ''White House Years'' (1979); vol 2 ''Years of Upheaval'' (1982); vol 3 ''Years of Renewal 1974–1976'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Years-Renewal-Henry-Kissinger/dp/0684855720/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211594084&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search vol 3]
* Nixon, Richard . ''RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon'' (1981) [http://www.amazon.com/RN-Memoirs-Richard-Nixon/dp/0671707418/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211594114&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Shultz, George P. ''Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State'' (1993)
==Historiography==
* Ferrell, Robert H. ''Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists.'' (2006). 142 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Truman-Cold-War-Revisionists/dp/0826216536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211594174&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Russia's Twentieth Century in History and Historiography," ''The Australian Journal of Politics and History'', Vol. 46, 2000
*Gaddis, John Lewis, ''We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History'', (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/We-Now-Know-Rethinking-Relations/dp/0198780710/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211594208&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; also [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=22791452 online edition] * Gaddis, John Lewis. "The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War," ''Diplomatic History,'' Summer 1983: 171-190.
* Gaddis, John Lewis. ''Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy.'' (1982). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98423566 online edition]
* Garthoff, Raymond L. "Foreign Intelligence and the Historiography of the Cold War." ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 2004 6(2): 21-56. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: [[Project Muse]]
* Kaplan, Lawrence S. ''American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance,'' (1991) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14391678 online edition]
* Kort, Michael. ''The Columbia Guide to the Cold War'' (1998)
* Matlock, Jack E. "The End of the Cold War" ''Harvard International Review'', Vol. 23 (2001)
* Olesen, Thorsten B. Ed. ''The Cold War and the Nordic Countries: Historiography at a Crossroads.'' Odense: U Southern Denmark Press, 2004. Pp. 194. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5010023306 online review]
* Suri, Jeremi. "Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?" ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' - Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2002, pp. 60-92 in [[Project Muse]]
* Trachtenberg, Marc. "The Marshall Plan as Tragedy." ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 2005 7(1): 135-140. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: in [[Project Muse]]
* Walker, J. Samuel. "Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus", in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., ''American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review'' (1981), 207–236.
* Westad, Arne Odd. "The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms," ''Diplomatic History,'' 2000, Vol. 24 in EBSCO
* Westad, Arne Odd, ed. ''Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory'' (2000) essays by scholars
* White, Timothy J. "Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies" ''International Social Science Review, (2000)
* William, William Appleman. ''The Tragedy of American Diplomacy'' (1958) (1988 edition), influential new Left book
** Berger, Henry W. ed. ''A William Appleman Williams Reader'' (1992)
** ''Redefining the Past: Essays in Diplomatic History in Honor of William Appleman Williams''. Lloyd C. Gardner (ed.) (1986)
* Westad, Odd Arne, ed. ''Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Reviewing-Cold-War-Approaches-Interpretations/dp/0714681202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211594380&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Xia, Yafeng. "The Study of Cold War International History in China: A Review of the Last Twenty Years," ''Journal of Cold War Studies''10#1 Winter 2008, pp. 81-115 in [[Project Muse]]
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