Concept and controversy : sixty years of taking ideas to market / by W.W. Rostow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-426) and index.

1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 -- 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? -- 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland -- 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off -- 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure -- 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion -- 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle -- 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized -- 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution -- 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? -- 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control -- 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century -- 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread --

14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries the Other about the Individual and History -- App. A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 -- App. B. The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death -- App. C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech -- App. D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2001.

"A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II.