Cold War, Cold Peace: The United States and Russia Since 1945

New York: American Heritage, 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears and chips.. [8], 341, [1] p. Illustrations. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury. Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Company. A study of the evolution of the foreign and military affairs of the USSR and United States since World War II, the various events bringing both nations to the edge of war-Berlin, Budapest, Cuba, Iran, Peking, the Middle East, and other happenings-the various personalities on both sides erupting these crises or resolving then, and the threat of nuclear war hanging over the world's populations and how they adapted to that threat. From Wikipedia: "Bernard Allen Weisberger (born 1922) is an American historian. He was born in New York. Weisberger taught American history at several universities including the University of Chicago and University of Rochester, where he was chair of the department. He has written more than a dozen books and worked on documentaries with Bill Moyers and Ken Burns. His Charles Ramsdell Prize winning article "The Dark and Bloody Ground of Reconstruction Historiography, " is considered a standard in the study of the Reconstruction period. He is a contributing editor of American Heritage, for which he wrote a regular column for ten years. Weisberger was also a member of the National Hillel Commission and a dedicated participant in the civil rights movement. His most recent books include The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), America Afire: Adams, Jefferson, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800 (Morrow, 2000), and When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World series of 1906 (HarperCollins, 2006)." From Wikipedia: " Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 July 5, 1993), an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1955), was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Minneapolis North High School in 1925 and the University of Minnesota in 1930. He spent nearly 20 years with United Press (UP), much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II. Additionally, he was The New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1949-1954. Salisbury constantly battled Soviet censorship and won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1955. He twice (in 1957 and 1966) received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. In the 1960s, he covered the growing civil rights movement in the Southern United States. From there, he directed The Times' coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. In 1970, he created The Times' Op-Ed page and was assistant managing editor from 1964 1972, associate editor from 1972-1973. He retired from The Times in 1973. Salisbury was among the earliest mainstream journalists to oppose the Vietnam War after reporting from North Vietnam in 1966. He took much heat from the Johnson Administration and the political Right, but his previous standards of objectivity helped to sway journalistic opinion against the war. He is interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film In the Year of the Pig. He was the first American journalist to report on the Vietnam War from North Vietnam after having been invited there by the North Vietnamese government in late 1966. His report was the first that genuinely questioned the American air war. Salisbury reported extensively from Communist China, where, in 1989, he witnessed the bloody student uprising at Tiananmen Square. He wrote 29 books, including American in Russia (1955) and Behind the Lines Hanoi (1967). His other books include The Shook-Up Generation (1958), Orbit of China (1967), War Between Russia and China (1969), The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969), To Peking and Beyond: A Report on the New Asia (1973), The Gates of Hell (1975), Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 (1978), Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (1980), Journey For Our Times (autobiographical, 1983), China: 100 Years of Revolution,