| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Canada and the United States

Robert David Johnson. Congress and the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 346. Cloth $70.00, paper $29.95.

Interpretations of American foreign policy since 1945 have tended to underestimate the impact of Congress upon policy making: in contrast to the period before Pearl Harbor, the era of the Cold War appeared to demonstrate the power of the executive, qualified by the repercussions of McCarthyism in the 1950s and the consequences of Watergate in the 1970s. Robert David Johnson has produced a carefully argued and thorough reassessment of the role played by Congress: he shows that the executive had to devote more time and energy to coping with the assertiveness of certain committee chairmen and individual legislators than has been recognized previously.

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