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Roundup

12-31-69

John Lewis Gaddis's New History of the Cold War [30min]

Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis wrote seminal books about the Cold War, during the Cold War. In his book, The Cold War: A New History, Gaddis discusses why the West won, and how it shaped the world.

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