Churchill remains a figure of fascination, especially for Americans. Five new books should sate our appetites for awhile.
A portrait of a dedicated senator and steadfast cold warrior.
Senator Moynihan has expanded his appendix to the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy report into an elegant, quotable, scholarly, and timely book.
Whereas the principal aim of American nuclear policy during the Cold War was to deter a strong and aggressive Soviet Union, the nuclear risks we face today stem from Russian weakness.
François Duchêne, Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W.
Nations, like people, view their past through emotional and psychological prisms. The normal course is for national history to become heroic myth--a saga of obstacles overcome, evil vanquished, national character triumphant.