Strategies of Containment
by John Gaddis
I think it is the best synthetic treatment of American grand strategy during the Cold War. Gaddis does a very good job of telling the story of the emergence of US efforts to contain the Soviet Union, and he packages the story in a conceptual way that I think has shaped public debate about American strategy ever since.
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