{"product_id":"the-new-left-and-the-origins-of-the-cold-war","title":"The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs more and more people are questioning the assumptions of present U.S. foreign policy they are reexamining the roots of these policies in the diplomacy of the Cold War. This scrutiny has made the origins of the Cold War the most controversial issue in American diplomatic history. Now a complete new dimension has been added to the debate by the charges leveled by Robert James Maddox in \u003ci\u003eThe New Left and the Origins of the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did the Cold War begin? Who or what was responsible? Could it have been avoided? Was it a temporary condition created by a combination of individual personalities and historical factors, or did it represent the clash of fundamentally irreconcilable political systems? The orthodox explanation of the Cold War is that it was \"the brave and essential response of free men to Communist aggression.\" A number of scholars more or less identified with the New Left have challenged the conventional explanation by asserting that the U.S. bears the major responsibility for its onset. One group of revisionists sees this as the result of a failure of statesmanship on the part of Truman and the advisors around him, the other that the Cold War was the inevitable result of the American system as it developed over the years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir conclusions have often been challenged in matters of interpretation. Robert Maddox, however, believes that an examination of the \u003ci\u003emanner\u003c\/i\u003e in which new interpretations are reached should precede dialogues over the ideas themselves. Consequently he has examined seven of the most prominent New Left works: \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of American Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e by William Appleman Williams; \u003ci\u003eThe Cold War and Its Origins\u003c\/i\u003e by D. F. Fleming; \u003ci\u003eAtomic Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e by Gar Alperovitz; \u003ci\u003eThe Free World Colossus\u003c\/i\u003e by David Horowitz; \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of War\u003c\/i\u003e by Gabriel Kolko; \u003ci\u003eYalta\u003c\/i\u003e by Diane Shaver Clemens; and \u003ci\u003eArchitects of Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e by Lloyd C. Gardner. After detailed comparisons of the evidence they p\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52641075691887,"sku":"9780691618579","price":254.32,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0691618577.jpg?v=1770405660","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/the-new-left-and-the-origins-of-the-cold-war","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}