For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War

Historian Melvyn Leffler plunges readers back into the state of hostility behind the Cold War, right at the moment that Stalin and Truman renegotiated a new policy, as well as the moments after the Cuban Missile Crisis when Kennedy, Kruschev and Johnson attempted to ease tensions. Tracing one anxious episode to the next, Leffler maps out the psychology of the conflict that appeared endless until its sudden disappearance in the 1990s.