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001 2004300901
003 DLC
005 20041230073527.0
008 040701s2004 nyuab 001 0 eng d
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050 00 $aD843$b.R37 2004
082 04 $a327.73047/REED
100 1 $aReed, Thomas C.
245 10 $aAt the abyss :$ban insider's history of the Cold War /$cThomas C. Reed.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPresidio Press/Ballantine Books,$cc2004.
300 $aix, 368 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
500 $aIntroduction by George H.W. Bush.
520 $aAn unvarnished view of America's fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command.
505 0 $aCommunist takeovers and makeovers -- The fifties unfold -- The Paparazzi pilots -- Howard Hughes supplies the props -- Rockets and missiles -- Sputnik and the missile gap -- Nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union -- The American cyberskippers -- The resumption of nuclear tests -- Getting started in Vietnam -- Winter on the Spanish coast -- Dawn of the information age -- The Air Force recovers from Vietnam -- Inefficiency kills, empires as well as people -- President Reagan sets up the checkmate -- Ghost stories from the Reagan White House -- The queen of hearts -- Cheney, Powell, and the nuclear genie -- The closers -- The Soviet solstice -- The heroes -- Closing down.
504 $aIncludes bibliographucal references and index.
500 $a"A Presidio Press book." ; Ballantine Books.
650 0 $aCold War.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.
700 1 $aBush, George,$d1924-
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/2004300901.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/2004300901.html