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This paper provides an analysis of John Lewis Gaddis' book "The Cold War: A New History" that provides a defense of U.S. policy and policymakers during the five-decade long conflict between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.

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"John Lewis Gaddis, history professor at Yale University is often viewed as the dean of Cold War historians. As an author of numerous books on the Cold War, Gaddis presents in "The Cold War: A New History", a short but comprehensive interpretation of the long-running, non-military war between the U.S. and former Soviet Union, that provides a defense of U.S. policy and policymakers. A traditionalist for the most part, Gaddis maintains that the world is a better place for the Cold War..."

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