In 2019, Henry Kissinger warned that the U.S. and China had entered the “foothills of a cold war,” and the Sino-American relationship has only worsened since.
The prospect of a new cold war has induced some historians to reexamine the old one.
Nick Bunker’s “In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950” is one such reexamination.
But over the ensuing 10 months, Truman’s attempt to expand on FDR’s domestic legacy fell apart, and the Democratic coalition that had dominated American politics for two decades began to break up as well.
Most perplexingly to Mr. Bunker, “American politics descended into strife at a moment when in so many ways the nation had little to fear.”
Persons:
Henry Kissinger, Nick Bunker’s “, ”, Bunker, Harry Truman, Truman’s
Organizations:
Financial Times, Labor, Democratic
Locations:
China, British, American