| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Congress and the Cold War. By Robert David Johnson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxxiv, 346 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-521-82133-9. Paper, $25.99, ISBN 0-521-52885-2.)

Robert David Johnson is a leading historical expert on the role of Congress in modern American foreign policy. In Congress and the Cold War, he successfully challenges the common assumption that Capitol Hill nearly always rubber-stamped the president's Cold War policies. While granting that after the Second World War Congress abdicated its responsibilities in the areas of war making and treaties, Johnson shows that enterprising senators and representatives found other tools—the appropriations process, subcommittee hearings and investigations, the news media—they could employ to shape the nation's foreign policy.

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