A-14 ★ SUGGESTED READING
Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democ-
racy (2000). Analyzes how the Cold War influenced and in some ways
encouraged the civil rights movement at home.
Gaddis, John. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Analysis of Postwar American
National Security (1982). An influential analysis of the development of the
containment policy central to American foreign policy during the Cold War.
Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (2001). Relates the drafting of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the response of governments around the
world, including the United States.
Hogan, Michael. The Marhsall Plan (1987). A detailed look at a pillar of early
Cold War policy.
Hunt, Michael. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987). Discusses how ideas,
including the idea of freedom, have shaped America’s interactions with
the rest of the world.
Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Admin-
istration, and the Cold War (1992). An influential account of the origins of
the Cold War.
Lipsitz, George. Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s (1994).
Examines the labor movement and its role in American life in the decade
of perhaps its greatest influence.
Saunders, Frances S. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and
Letters (2000). Describes how the CIA and other government agencies
secretly funded artists and writers as part of the larger Cold War.
Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998). A full
account of the anticommunist crusade at home and its impact on Ameri-
can intellectual and social life.
Stueck, William. The Korean War: An International History (1995). Studies the
Korean War in its full global context.
Sugrue, Thomas. Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in
Postwar Detroit (1996). Explores race relations in a key industrial city
after World War II and how they set the stage for the upheavals of the
1960s.
WEBSITES
Cold War International History Project: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/program
/ cold- war- international- history- project
The Korean War and its Origins, 1945–1953: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/