Thomas G. Paterson is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a past President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, author of several books, including Soviet-American Confrontation and On Every Front, and editor of Kennedy's Quest for Victory.
"[The essays] compliment each other quite well, collectively
providing a coherent examination of American foreign policy from
the 1930s to the 1980s....The overall quality of the essays is
remarkably high....The chapters on the intellectual progression of
George Kennan, the originator of the containment doctrine, and on
the effect of Vietnam on President Ronald Reagan's Central American
policy are especially thoughtful and thought-provoking."--Oral
History
Review
"I think it is very important that Americans read this
book....Meeting the Communist Threat is not only relevant to Mr.
Gorbachev's recent visit, and to the difficulties we have adjusting
to foreign cultures, but it supplies a description of the
development of the Cold War uncolored by chauvinism."--J. William
Fulbright, Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations
"An update of Paterson's well-reasoned views."--Virginia Quarterly
Review
"[Paterson] uses his thorough knowledge of the sources and a
pungent style to take us behind the scenes of U.S. policy in the
Cold War....The sights may not be pretty, but Paterson's handling
of them is superb."--Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
"[Paterson's] thorough research adds to the now considerable body
of scholarship showing how sharply Washington's fear-mongering
contrasted with the more sober reports produced behind closed
doors."--Alan Tonelson, The New York Times Book Review
"These provocative essays by one of America's most distinguished
diplomatic historians explore the origins of Cold War assumptions
and analyze the use of Cold War instruments. Meeting the Communist
Threat should be essential reading for all students of postwar
United States' foreign policy."--George C. Herring, University of
Kentucky
"A thoughtful and concise analysis of America's postwar
preoccupation with communism."--Ronald Steel, School of
International Relations, University of Southern California
"[A] lucidly written and persuasively argued
collection."--CHOICE
"[Paterson] offers a most provocative account of [the Cold War]
conflict, doing so in a series of essays that often flow into
seamless narrative....As useful to policymakers as to those
desiring a most stimulating account of the recent past."--The St.
Petersburg Times
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