TY - JOUR
AU1 - Herken, Gregg
AB -  Book Reviews Book Reviews Robert D. Schulzinger, ed., A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 562 pp. $131.95. Reviewed by J. Garry Clifford, University of Connecticut This collection of twenty-ªve historiographical essays surveying the current state of U.S. diplomatic history is one of a series of Blackwell Companions to American History. The volume will be indispensable reading for scholars in the ªeld as well as for graduate students preparing for general exams. Covering the entire ªeld of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial era to the present, the essays highlight the rich variety of new approaches that have energized international history over the past three decades. Save for three chapters on ideas, culture, and the environment that encompass the entire period of American history, most essays focus on regional relations, critical periods, and major wars from the late nineteenth century on. More than half of the authors discuss the key sources, literatures, and debates pertaining to the Cold War. Readers of this journal will ªnd several relevant essays. Mark A. Stoler discusses the historiography on World War II, emphasizing that scholars have continued to interpret wartime diplomacy and strategy as “the ªrst round in 
TI - Thomas C. Reed, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. 368 pp. $25.95
JF - Journal of Cold War Studies
DO - 10.1162/jcws.2007.9.2.148
DA - 2007-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/mit-press/thomas-c-reed-at-the-abyss-an-insider-s-history-of-the-cold-war-new-bczjbYD7qQ
SP - 148
EP - 150
VL - 9
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -