Book Review: Richard Aldous Reviews America’s Cold Warrior by James Graham Wilson
In a review for the Wall Street Journal, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Culture at Bard College Richard Aldous calls James Graham Wilson’s America’s Cold War Warrior on the life and legacy of statesman Paul Nitze “a brilliant political biography, elegantly written, rich in archival material.” Nitze was an expert on military power and strategic arms and served as negotiator and diplomat in several administrations from the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. Although lesser known than many of his Cold War contemporaries, Nitze notably “took a ‘walk in the woods’ with his Soviet counterpart at arms-control talks in Geneva in 1982, during the Reagan administration,” which “lay the groundwork” for the historic Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the first arms-control agreement to abolish an entire category of weapons systems signed by Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev five years later. “Wilson sets out to remind us of Nitze’s critical role in a period of dangerous international rivalry,” writes Aldous.
Post Date: 07-23-2024