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# The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

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## Customer Reviews

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    It’s over or is it?
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018*

Nicholas Thompson is the grandson of Paul Nitze and as such has reason and will to revisit the Cold War in a work published in 2009 when that period was easing into history, four years after the passing of the architect of ‘containment’ and five after the man who bragged “[Kennan] always thought that I hijacked our Cold War policy of containment away from him.” “And I did, of course,” Paul Nitze – the dove and the hawk.What they achieved was to shape the perceptions of the nation regarding the intentions of the Soviet Union, from the end of WWII to the demise of the U.S.S.R. in the early 1990’s, and those ideas formulated policy in a contest of devastating nuclear armaments.  That both were, as Thompson shows, mistaken about Soviet policy mattered little as their net impact was the avoidance of WWIII by wise if often conflicting counsel. Thompson gift is to described the  building of the Cold War contest, the broad interplay of ideology shaping capitalism versus communism as worthy of world destruction if need be and finally efforts to wind down the stockpiles of death against the parade of Washington leaders thrown up in the fifty year period.From Truman to Clinton, Stalin to Gorbachev. I had to battle the impulse to record passages on almost every page his telling is that rich.George Kennan and Paul Nitze come across as very wise men who disagreed because of a simple premise on what Russian History projected and what it meant for the conflict between two great powers; both men have been ruled brilliant but that did not resolve their dispute.Roll that failing into the current world’s perceived conflict between a rising China and a declining America, as some see it, and the rogue interplay injected by Putin’s Russia and Kim’s Korea and all the elements seem to be present for another Cold War, but where are the wise men?One could take from Nicholas Thompson rich history that the world was lucky last time, though not those who fell in Korea and Vietnam. If you remember the period you will greatly enjoy Thompson’s caring coverage.

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    The book glosses over what was probably the most important ...
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017*

The two men were giants. Every decision they made was based upon available facts and much uncertainty. They served their country well. The book should be read today. For example in 1969 Kissinger and Nixon cooked up a ploy . Nixon had B52s fly very close to the USSR for three days in an effort to convince the Soviets that Nixon was a mad man. The Soviets reacted with serious disarmament talks. One could guess then that Kissinger and Trump used a similar ploy in dealing with North Korea.  The book, however,  glosses over what was probably the onet important part Paul Nitze's life. Nitze was Secretary of the Navy when the Gulf of Tomkin incident occurred. It wast his duty to verify the field reports. He apparently did nothing. Many died as a result of his inaction.

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    Hardcover was torn under the dust jacket
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2020*

The content of the book is great of course. The dust jacket was in good shape as well, as it was protected by the all too well known clear plastic of a public library. The hard back front cover was torn about a half inch, and that was not expected and does lesser the value of the product. Had I known the hardcover was torn I may have ordered another copy. As a reading copy it is great. As a collecting copy it is not so great.

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