Cold War triumphalism : the misuse of history after the fall of communism / edited by Ellen Schrecker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-339) and index.

Introduction : cold war triumphalism and the real cold war / Ellen Schrecker -- 1. Moral judgments and the cold war : reflections on Reinhold Niebuhr, William Appleman Williams, and John Lewis Gaddis / Leo P. Ribuffo -- 2. Time of illusion : post-cold war visions of the world / Bruce Cumings -- 3. Market triumphalism and the wishful liberals / Nelson Lichtenstein -- 4. Cold war triumphalism and the deformation of the American economy / Michael A. Bernstein -- 5. "Papers of a dangerous tendency" : from Major Andre's boot to the VENONA files / Maurice Isserman and Ellen Schrecker -- 6. The myth of the Berlin blockade and the early cold war / Carolyn Eisenberg -- 7. The United States, the United Nations, and the other post-cold war world order : internationalism and unilateralism in the American century / Jessica Wang -- 8. The three cold wars / Chalmers Johnson -- 9. Still stuck in the big muddy / Marilyn B. Young -- 10. Remembrance of empires past : 9/11 and the end of the cold war / Corey Robin.