Contents

Introduction

1.  The Preparatory Years, 1938–1945

2.  Toward the 1948 Debacle

3.  The Eisenhower Solution, 1948–1952

4.  The Mutual Security Agency and Foreign Operations Administration, 1953–1955

5.  Special Assistant for Disarmament, 1955–1958

6.  The Illusion of Progress, 1956

7.  1957—Stassen’s Gaffe?

8.  The Long Anticlimax, June 1957–February 1958

Conclusions and Reflections

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index