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H. W. Brands

The Devil We Knew

Americans and the Cold War

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In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could have fit inside a high-school gymnasium, and it was so heavily infiltrated that J. Edgar Hoover actually contemplated using his informers as a voting bloc to take over the party. Abroad, the preoccupation with communism drove the White House to help overthrow democratically elected governments in Guatemala and Iran, and replace them with dictatorshi… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-987996-0
  • EAN: 9780199879960
  • Produktnummer: 13999989
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'567 KB

Über den Autor


H.W. Brands is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. His books include Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines, and Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire.

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