1. The Cold War Begins: The Formative Years, 1945-50 -- 2. The View from a Think Tank: Soviet Affairs Expert at RAND -- 3. The Thaw: Observing the Soviet Union After Stalin -- 4. CIA and Intelligence Analysis and Estimates -- 5. "Foreign Affairs Adviser" at the Pentagon -- 6. Intelligence Excursions in the Soviet Union -- 7. The Espionage Game -- 8. Department of State: The Kennedy Years (I) -- 9. Department of State: The Kennedy Years (II) -- 10. The Cuban Missile Crisis: Turning Point of the Cold War -- 11. Department of State: The Johnson Years -- 12. The Diplomacy of East-West Relations -- 13. Negotiating on Strategic Arms: SALT and the ABM Treaty -- 14. Developing Detente in U.S.-Soviet Relations
Summary
"In this memoir, Ambassador Raymond Garthoff paints a diplomatic history of the Cold War, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage point of an observant insider. The author's intellectually formative years coincided with the earliest days of the Cold War, and he participated in some of the most important policymaking of the twentieth century." "Garthoff's journey through the Cold War informs the views, positions, and actions of the past. His anecdotes and observations will also be of great value to those anticipating the challenges of reevaluating American post-Cold War security policy."--BOOK JACKET
