The Last Cold War Was Disastrous — We Shouldn’t Welcome Another
A new book uses poor history to urge the ruthless containment of America’s rivals — skirting Washington’s past failures and the millions of civilian dead.
Derek Leebaert won the biennial 2020 Harry S. Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957. He is a founder of the National Museum of the US Army.
A new book uses poor history to urge the ruthless containment of America’s rivals — skirting Washington’s past failures and the millions of civilian dead.