Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: A Backward Glance: 1916-1938
  • Chapter Two: The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944?
  • Chapter Three: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland
  • Chapter Four: The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off
  • Chapter Five: Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure
  • Chapter Six: Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion
  • Chapter Seven: The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle.
  • Chapter Eight: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized
  • Chapter Nine: China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution
  • Chapter Ten: Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut?
  • Chapter Eleven: The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention Versus Damage Control
  • Chapter Twelve: Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century
  • Chapter Thirteen: The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread.
  • Chapter Fourteen: Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History
  • Appendix A: Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946
  • Appendix B: The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death
  • Appendix C: Text of W.W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech
  • Appendix D: Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2001
  • Notes
  • 1. A Backward Glance
  • 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945.
  • 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989
  • 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953
  • 5. Open Skies, 1955
  • 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963
  • 7. The Republic of Korea
  • 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972
  • 9. China, 1949-
  • 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia
  • 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-
  • 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge
  • 13. The Long and Short Periods
  • 14. Final Reflections
  • Index.