Paper 24 reading list

21. THE COLD WAR
Includes: origins of the Cold War, including historiographical controversies; the American response to
communism abroad; how perceptions of communism were formed; the causes and consequences of the
Korean War; the varying approaches to containment by presidential administrations from Truman to
Reagan; the crisis of American power in the 1960s and responses to it, such as détente and the opening to
China;
a. General (also applicable to all other categories in Section 21, below)
Warren I. Cohen, America in the Age of Soviet Power (1993)
Richard Crockatt, The Fifty Years War (1995)
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (1982; 2005)
——, The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War (1987)
——, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)
David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (2000)
Mike Sewell, The Cold War (2002)
Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (1999)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (2005), esp. Intro and chapters 1-2
b. Origins
John Fousek, To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War
(2000)
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War (1972)
Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe (1987)
——, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State (1998)
Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the
Cold War (1992), especially the conclusion
——, The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (1994)
——, “The Cold War: What Do ‘We Now Know’” AHR (1999)
Geir Lundestad, “Empire by Invitation The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952,” Journal of
Peace Research (1986)
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