| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Eisenhower, Macmillan, and Allied Unity, 1957–1961. By E. Bruce Geelhoed and Anthony O. Edmonds. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. xxxii, 196 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-333-64227-9.)

The authors, on the faculty at Ball State University, assert that this is an old-fashioned book harking back to "the old days of diplomatic history" (p. vi). They say further that, if they have a theme, it is that friendships do matter in international relations, and in particular in Anglo-American relations. In examining the significance of the friendship of the British prime minister and the American president from 1957 to 1961, they concentrate, even in their sources, on the interaction between the two individuals and largely exclude defense, Foreign Office, and State Department papers from their consideration. Their focus is on western Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance, and the Middle East and the significance of these issues for the Cold War, and they make the case that Anglo-American relations at this time "functioned almost as an alliance within an alliance, where each country attempted to coordinate its foreign and defense policies within the broader framework of NATO strategy" (p. xi).

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