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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 Lawrence S. Kaplan scrupulously retraces the way in which Vandenberg remade himself from a standard-issue Republican right-winger to an icon of the anti-Communist liberals. [He] has provided an authoritative account of Vandenberg's political and intellectual pilgrimage. -- The Weekly Standard

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

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Lawrence S. Kaplan is emeritus director of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University, USA and a professorial lecturer in history at Georgetown University, USA. 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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