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Negotiating Democracy for Haiti

March 2007

Review by Lars Schoultz
Ralph Pezzullo, Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2006), 312 pp.

Summit Meetings of the Second World War

January 2007

Review by Paul D. Mayle
War Summits. The Meetings that Shaped World War II and the Postwar World. By David Stone. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. $29.95. Pp. 326. cloth

The Bloodiest Century

January 2007

Review by Francis P. Sempa
Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006, pp. lxxi, 654

Covert Action and U.S. Foreign Policy

January 2007

Review by Stephen Knott
Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency. By William J. Daugherty. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 298.

The “Go Home” Option

January 2007

Review by Robert V. Keeley in the Foreign Service Journal January 2007
Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now George McGovern and William R. Polk, Simon and Schuster, 2006, $15, paperback, 135 pages.

Red Spies in Flight

November 2006

Review by Katherine A. S. Sibley
Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley. By Steven T. Usdin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 329.) Notes, pictures, index. $40.00 cloth.

Constructing the New China Policy

September 2006

Review by Michael H. Hunt
Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974: From “Red Menace” to “Tacit Ally”. By Evelyn Goh. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 299. $75 cloth.)

Stray Voltage: War in an Information Age

August 2006

Review by A. J. Andreas Ringl
Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age. By Wayne Michael Hall. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003, 248 pages, $36.95)

The Covert Confederacy Abroad

May 2006

Review by Troy Kickler
Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad. By Edwin De Leon. Edited by William C. Davis. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 224. $35 cloth.)

Lincoln, London and Emancipation Diplomacy

May 2006

Review by Martin Crawford
Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War By Howard Jones. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 236. $35 cloth.)

The Father of Containment Speaks!

March 2006

Review by Anders Stephanson
Interviews with George F. Kennan. Edited by T. Christopher Jespersen. (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Pp. 224. $35 cloth.)

Lessons from Vietnam: Don’t Cut and Run

March 2006

by Michael Cotter
Escape With Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam. By Ambassador (ret.) Francis Terry McNamara. (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 1997. Pp. xii, 218. $16.95 paper.)

Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War

January 2006

Review by Francis P. Sempa
Paul Kengor, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. (New York: Regan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, 2006, pp. xvi, 412, notes, index, $29.95. cloth).

It’s the Culture, Comrade!

January 2006

Review by Jack R. Perry
Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. By Yale Richmond. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $35 cloth.)