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Acknowledgments | |
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Definitions of Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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Introduction: "The Shiniest Fish that Ever Came Out of the Sea" | |
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Part I | |
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Rare Meat: Adding Reach to Power | |
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Patterns of Peril: Joining the cold Warriors | |
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Rome and Carthage: The Truman Doctrine | |
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The Marshall Plan and Return to Private Life | |
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Part II | |
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The Inner and Outer Acheson | |
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Acheson, the President, and the State Department | |
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Keeping the Americans In, the Russians Out, and the Germans Down, 1949 | |
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Strategy in Europe: Backing the West, Probing the East | |
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Looking for Chances in China, 1949 | |
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Neither Wood nor Ivory: Checkmated in China, 1949-1950 | |
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Other Early Encounters with Asia and the Middle East | |
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Part III | |
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Weapons: The H-Bomb | |
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Words: NSC-68, Public Opinion, and Total Diplomacy | |
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Real Diplomacy, in Europe, 1949-1950 | |
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Plunge into the Unknown: The United States, Indochina, and China on the Eve of the Korean War | |
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Friends in Place: Acheson and Alger Hiss | |
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Evil Days | |
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Part IV | |
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Testing Ground-Korea | |
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In the Cockpit | |
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Prodding Evolution with Action: German Rearmament | |
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Acceleration from a Running Start | |
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Part V | |
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In Thrall: Ironic Failures in Korea | |
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Job's Comforter and the Mad Satrap | |
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Captives of War | |
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At Different Ends of the Triangle: Domestic Debates, European Armies, British Allies | |
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Part VI | |
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Command in Japan | |
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Failure in Indochina and China | |
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Razor Edge Sensibilities: ANZUS and India | |
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Falling between Two Stools: The Middle East, North Africa, and Africa | |
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Picking Up Sticks in Egypt and Iran | |
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Jousting with Mosadeq, Waiting for Nasser | |
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Latin America: Critical but not Serious | |
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Part VII | |
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Lisbon to Letdown: The Fate of the EDC | |
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Apples of Discord: Germany and the Soviet Union, 1952 | |
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Scope for the Exercise of Every Vital Power | |
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Conclusion: Power for a Purpose | |
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A Note to the Reader | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |