From the bookshelf
Here are some reactions to two books that I've started but not finished this week, both of which I liked very much.
The first is John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War: A New History. This is Gaddis's latest crack at a subject he has specialized in for years; he says he wrote it in response to the response of many of his Yale students to his much longer books: "Can't you cover more years with fewer words?"
...continue reading.

