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