| This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, the Eisenhower-Dulles",New Look,", the Kennedy-Johnson",flexible response", strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan--and Gorbechev--completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end. |
