| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War. Ed. by Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L. Johns. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xxii, 304 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-5381-1.)

This collection of essays seeks to understand the efforts of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration to shape an effective American response to the turmoil unleashed by the accelerating process of decolonization across the non-European world. According to Andrew L. Johns, "the administration frequently failed to comprehend the forces at work in the Third World, and, lacking a nuanced approach, often found itself at the mercy of events out of its control" (p. viii). In the introduction, Chester J. Pach Jr. illustrates the intellectual prison that determined the administration's constrained world view, a view invoked when Eisenhower described the struggles of the Cold War as good versus evil, freedom versus slavery, and lightness versus darkness (pp. xi–xii). Missing from those observations is a discussion of the centrality of the white supremacist ideology in the Eisenhower administration that hampered its ability to deal with an era defined by desegregation at home and anticolonialism abroad.

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