Passport April 2018

In This Issue:

4 Contributors

7 A Roundtable on Melvyn P. Leffler, Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 (Kristin L. Ahlberg, Chester J. Pach, Gretchen Heefner, Kelly Shannon, Campbell Craig, and Melvyn P. Leffler)

21 A Roundtable on Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Brian C. Etheridge, Thomas A. Schwartz, John Robert Greene, Dustin Walcher, Fritz Bartel, and Jeffrey A. Engel)

33 The Battle FDR Lost: The Failed Nomination of Boss Ed Flynn as Minister to Australia (Michael J. Birkner)

40 A Roundtable on Gregg Brazinsky, Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War (James I. Matray, Meredith Oyen, Jeffrey Crean, Pierre Asselin, Mitchell Lerner, and Gregg Brazinsky)

50 Close, but No Cigar! (Michael Schaller)

52 The Shit Quote (Jeffrey F. Taffet)

54 SHAFR Spotlights

63 Book Reviews

Catherine Forslund on John Pomfret, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2016)

Jeffrey A. Engel on Gregory F. Domber, Empowering Revolution: America, Poland and the End of the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014)

Andrew M. Johnston on Tony Smith, Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017)

Henry R. Maar, III on Louis Sell, From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016)

70 Minutes of the January 2018 SHAFR Council Meeting

72 The Diplomatic Pouch

75 Dispatches

76 In Memoriam: Sally Marks

77 The Last Word: Goodbye to All That (Francis J. Gavin)

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