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"Campbell Craig's D E S T R 0 YI N G T H E VI L L A G E is not just painstakingly researched and intellectuallly acute; it resonates with a subtle, ironic moral understanding which is ho less powerful for being quiet and controlled. The reader asks, did we actually live through so preposterous a scene and accept it as our due? The book answers, no matter how unbelievably, we did. This is electric reading. Not to be missed."
—Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modem Memory
"This. beautifully written, and lucidly organized book offers new perspectives on strategic thinking during the Gold War's most dangerous phase, and illuminates our understanding of the often tense relations between Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and powerfiil figures in the Pentagon. This is a must read for anyone interested in policy debates that, in the last analysis, involved nothing less than the fate of the earth."
— Paul Boyer, author of By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at... Tovább

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"Campbell Craig's D E S T R 0 YI N G T H E VI L L A G E is not just painstakingly researched and intellectuallly acute; it resonates with a subtle, ironic moral understanding which is ho less powerful for being quiet and controlled. The reader asks, did we actually live through so preposterous a scene and accept it as our due? The book answers, no matter how unbelievably, we did. This is electric reading. Not to be missed."
—Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modem Memory
"This. beautifully written, and lucidly organized book offers new perspectives on strategic thinking during the Gold War's most dangerous phase, and illuminates our understanding of the often tense relations between Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and powerfiil figures in the Pentagon. This is a must read for anyone interested in policy debates that, in the last analysis, involved nothing less than the fate of the earth."
— Paul Boyer, author of By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
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"Campbell Craig has written a fresh and compelling study of American nuclear strategy in the depths of the Cold War. While most studies follow the themes of deterrence, massive retaliation and mutual assured destruction, Craig highlights the often overlooked theme of evasion. This is a wonderfiil history of ideas, and of the men whose moral and ethical principles provided much needed restraint in a time of confrontation, urgency, and anxiety."
—Joel H. RosENtHAL, president, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
"Drawing on voluminous and recendy released archives, Craig insightfully traces the evolution of Eisenhower's thinking about the unthinkable. Anyone interested in U.S. nuclear strategy, or what Craig appropriately calls the strategy of nuclear evasion, will find this book both challenging and indispensable."
— Richard H. Immerman, Editor of John Foster Dulles and the ' Diplomacy of the Cold War
CAMPBELL CRAIG is assistant professor of U.S. diplomatic history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Vissza