Thomas G. Paterson is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a past President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, author of several books, including Soviet-American Confrontation and On Every Front, and editor of Kennedy's Quest for Victory.

`Paterson traces United States alarmism to the 1930s when Hitler's rise convinced many influential Americans that all totalitarian states, including Stalin's Russia, were menaces to world peace ... Paterson also argues convincingly that unregenerate cold warriors such as President Truman, Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles were not the only culprits.' New York Times Book Review

Thomas G. Paterson is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a past President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, author of several books, including Soviet-American Confrontation and On Every Front, and editor of Kennedy's Quest for Victory.

`Paterson traces United States alarmism to the 1930s when Hitler's rise convinced many influential Americans that all totalitarian states, including Stalin's Russia, were menaces to world peace ... Paterson also argues convincingly that unregenerate cold warriors such as President Truman, Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles were not the only culprits.' New York Times Book Review

Thomas G. Paterson is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a past President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, author of several books, including Soviet-American Confrontation and On Every Front, and editor of Kennedy's Quest for Victory.

`Paterson traces United States alarmism to the 1930s when Hitler's rise convinced many influential Americans that all totalitarian states, including Stalin's Russia, were menaces to world peace ... Paterson also argues convincingly that unregenerate cold warriors such as President Truman, Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles were not the only culprits.' New York Times Book Review