Book cover image of Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--and How to Return to Reality
Book cover image of Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--and How to Return to Reality

Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--and How to Return to Reality

Mar 11, 2010

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Jack Matlock, American ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, corrects a number of pervasive myths about the Cold War, including the belief that it ended with the fall of the Soviet Union and that the U.S. effectively won.

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