Description: foreign policy during the initial years of the Cold War.
Brief description: Lawrence S. Kaplan is emeritus director of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University and a professorial lecturer in history at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including NATO Divided, NATO United: The Evolution of an Alliance and NATO 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance.
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Without Vandenberg, U.S. containment of the Soviet Union would have experienced a severe setback. Moreover, the U.S. might well have entered the United Nations, if it did at all, with less than enthusiastic support. While some have touched on this topic, none have done so with Kaplan's thoroughness. Kaplan remains our leading NATO scholar and is particularly appropriate to pursue this topic.
--Justus Doenecke, author of Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I