| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity. By Leerom Medovoi. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. x, 387 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 0-8223-3680-4. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8223-3692-8.)

"Handle with care" is a sticker that historians might hope to see affixed to this volume. For it attributes the ideal of "one world" to someone named "Senator [sic] Wendel [sic] Wilkie [sic]" (p. 12), who never held a political office, and also dates the 1955 Bandung conference two years later (p. 13). The 1974 Nobel laureate in economics, Friedrich A. Hayek, is identified as "the Cold Warrior Robert Hayek" (ibid.), while "Fordism" is entwined with the "Keynesian welfare state" (p. 15)—despite Henry Ford's notorious antipathy to the New Deal. George F. Kennan is supposed to be the author of the "famous Long (or X) Telegram" (p. 19), even though the telegram was sent in 1946, whereas Foreign Affairs published his "X" article a year later. That is just for starters; Leerom Medovoi is still in chapter one.

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