| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. By Bruce Kuklick. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 241 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-12349-7.)

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States assumed its position as a great power in the international community and built a military, intelligence, and foreign policy establishment commensurate with its global responsibilities. Throughout the early decades of the Cold War, as the American national security institutions were reorganized and expanded, academics and intellectuals were recruited for senior positions in the government and as advisors and consultants to those who held high office. Bruce Kuklick has written a provocative account of those intellectuals: who they were, how they were trained, and what consequences their contributions had from 1945 to 1975. The thesis of the book can be simply stated. The foreign policy intellectuals who applied academic expertise to Cold War issues were mostly misguided. They were, as the title says, blind oracles.

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