| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966. Ed. by Christian G. Appy. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-55849-217-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55849-218-6.)

Cold War Constructions is a book with an agenda. Its contributors seek to find causal linkages between U.S. foreign policy, which they equate with imperialism, and cultural politics at home and abroad in the first two decades of the post–World War II era. Taken as a whole, the eleven chapters illuminate the origins and boundaries of a broadly construed cultural cold war. The book's editor, Christian G. Appy, author of the splendid Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993), frames the volume by casting the essays as a scholarly response to James Burnham's call in 1947 for the creation of a global American empire. All contributors assume that U.S. officials from the Truman administration onward heeded Burnham's call to imperial activism. . . .

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