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Policymakers and Power: Post–Cold War Reconsiderations of the Origins of Containment and the National Security State - Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 518. $29.95). - Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947–1950 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 357. $35.00).

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Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 518. $29.95).
Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947–1950 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 357. $35.00).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Gary R. Hess
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 266 - 270
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1994

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1. Gaddis, John Lewis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 (New York, 1972)Google Scholar.

2. Gaddis, John Lewis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)Google Scholar.

3. Hixson, Walter L., George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast (New York, 1989)Google Scholar; Stephanson, Anders, Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (Cambridge, Mass., 1989)Google Scholar.