The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War - Paperbackby John Lewis Gaddis (Author) In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another. Using recently declassified American and British documents, Gaddis argues that the postwar international system has contained previously unsuspected elements of stability. This