CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
CNN produced a twenty-four part television series on the cold war that generated heated discussion among scholars and in the media. Is the CNN series an accurate depiction or revisionist history? To provide perspective on this issue, CNN's Cold War Documentary, a collection of important articles, commentaries, and reviews about this CNN series, Cold War, presents material on both sides of the debate.
Is the television series and related book, as columnist Charles Krauthammer says, a moral affront to the West's resolve, dedicated to a "relentless attempt to find moral equivalence between two sides"? Or, as executive producer Sir Jeremy Isaacs says, is CNN's Cold War "simply and directly, without gloss or spin . . . a guide you can trust to the story of our time"? The essays in this documentary collection will guide the reader to an informed conclusion.
This book includes original essays by three distinguished scholars Robert Conquest, John Lewis Gaddis, and Richard Pipes, and reprints pro and con essays, including a defense of the series by Sir Jeremy Isaacs and others who were intimately involved with the production of the television series and the published book, Cold War.
Arnold Beichman, editor and contributor to the volume, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a columnist for the Washington Times.
Contributors: Kenneth Auchincloss, Arnold Beichman, Robert Conquest, Thomas Doherty, John Lewis Gaddis, Mark Falcoff, Lawrence Freedman, John L. Harper, Jacob Heilbrunn, Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas M. Nichols, Richard Pipes, Ronald Radosh, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Raymond A. Schroth, Joseph Shattan, Mark Steyn, David Wilson
About the Author
Arnold Beichman, editor and contributor to the volume, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a columnist for the Washington Times.
Contributors: Kenneth Auchincloss, Arnold Beichman, Robert Conquest, Thomas Doherty, John Lewis Gaddis, Mark Falcoff, Lawrence Freedman, John L. Harper, Jacob Heilbrunn, Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas M. Nichols, Richard Pipes, Ronald Radosh, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Raymond A. Schroth, Joseph Shattan, Mark Steyn, David Wilson
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