Our great and enduring shame is that we read books. If you’re interested in reading some of the books we are using as our source materials, here’s a list we recommend.
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire – Fredrik Logevall
- Ho Chi Minh – William J. Duiker
- The Marshall Plan – Benn Steil
- America’s Cold War: The Politics Of Insecurity – Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall
- The Tragedy of American Diplomacy – William Appleman Williams
- Atomic Cover-Up – Greg Mitchell
- The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb – Gar Alperovitz
- Legacy of Ashes (The History of the C.I.A.) – Tim Weiner
- The Manhattan Project – Al Cimino
- The Truman Era – I. F. Stone
- Truman – David McCullough
- Potsdam – Michael Neiberg
- Operation Paperclip – Annie Jacobsen
- The Second World War – Winston S. Churchill
- Yalta: The Price of Peace – S. M. Plokhy
- Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics – V. M. Molotov
- Kissinger’s Shadow – Greg Grandin
- World Order – Henry Kissinger
- Conversations with Stalin – Milovan Djilas
- Fidel Castro: My Life – Ignacio Ramonet
- Che – Jon Lee Anderson
- The War State – Michael Swanson
- My Silent War – Philby, Kim
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Economic Causes of War By Peter T. Leckie
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin – Timothy Synder
- American Diplomacy – George F. Kennan
- A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
- For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War – Melvyn P. Leffler
- The Yalta Conference – Charles River Editors
- World War II Documents: The Yalta Conference – Various Authors
- The Devil’s Chessboard – David Talbot
- Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator – Oleg V. Khlevniuk
- A History of Modern Russia – Robert Service
- FDR – Jean Edward Smith
- Alliance – Fenby, Jonathan
- Churchill’s Empire – Richard Toye
- The Soviet Century – Moshe Lewin
- Young Stalin – Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Cold War – Carole K. Fink
- Debating the Origins of the Cold War – Ralph B. Levering
- A Failed Empire – Vladislav M. Zubok
- The Cold War – John Gaddis
- Donovan: America’s Master Spy – William Stephenson
- The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman – Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell
- A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954 – Michael J. Hogan
- Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman – Merle Miller
- Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 – Stephen Kotkin
- The hidden history of the Korean War, 1950-1951 – I. F. Stone
- Untold History Of The United States – Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
- Tito: a biography – Geoffrey Swain
- Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era – Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, Peter Stanfield
- Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution – Noam Chomsky, Davor Džalto
- Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated – Gore Vidal
- Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919–1933 – James E. Pool, III, Suzanne Pool
- The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship – Paul R. Gregory, Norman Naimark
- The Invention of the Land of Israel – Shlomo Sand
- The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World – Daniel Yergin
- The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy – Adam Tooze
- Masters of Deceit – J. Edgar Hoover
- Little ’Red Scares’: Anti-Communism and Political Repression in the United States, 1921-1946 – Robert Justin Goldstein