CNN's Cold War Documentary Issues and

This collection of essays provides perspective on The Cold War, the CNN-produced 24-part television series and accompanying book, and presents material on both sides of the debate: Is the CNN series an accurate depiction or revisionist history? CNN's Cold War Documentary presents material on both sides of the debate to answer this queston.

Arnold Beichman, a political scientist, writer, and former journalist, was a visiting scholar and research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1982 to 2010. He was an expert in international relations and American politics.

Foreword

ix

John Raisian

Introduction: The Cold War Was a Just War

xiii

Arnold Beichman

PART ONE ESSAYS

Twenty-four Lies about the Cold War

3

(33)

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Letters

20

(10)

Jeremy Isaacs

John Lewis Gaddis

Vladislav Zubok

Irving Louis Horowitz

Thomas Mayer

Thomas M. Nichols

Erich Rauchway

Russell Roberts

Jackson Toby

Response

30

(6)

Gabriel Schoenfeld

The Cold War, Television, and the Approximation of Truth

36

(8)

John Lewis Gaddis

The Cold War: CNN's Version

44

(12)

Richard Pipes

The Historical Failings of CNN

56

(15)

Robert Conquest

Mules, Missiles, and McCarthy: CNN's Cold War

71

(8)

Thomas M. Nichols

Why We Were in Central America

79

(16)

Mark Falcoff

PART TWO OP-EDS AND BRIEF ARTICLES

Cold Water and Cold War Triumphalism

95

(3)

Arnold Beichman

Ted's Reds

98

(6)

Arnold Beichman

Fractured Cold War Reflections

104

(3)

Arnold Beichman

History in the Making

107

(5)

Sir Jeremy Isaacs

CNN's Cold War: Twenty-four Hours of Moral Equivalence

112

(3)

Charles Krauthammer

Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post

115

(2)

Sir Jeremy Isaacs

Revolutionary Dreams

117

(3)

Charles Krauthammer

Viewer Discretion Advised

120

(6)

Jacob Heilbrunn

The Cold War On-Screen

126

(3)

Kenneth Auchincloss

How Anti-Americanism Won the Cold War

129

(8)

Joseph Shattan

The View from Inside: Answering Some Criticism

137

(3)

John Lewis Gaddis

Finding a Moral Difference between the United States and the Soviets

140

(3)

Ronald Radosh

Revisiting the Cold War

143

(5)

Raymond A. Schroth

Persecution Mania

148

(6)

Mark Steyn

Watching the Cold War

154

(6)

John L. Harper

Televising the Cold War

160

(6)

Thomas Doherty

Broadcasting History

166

(3)

Lawrence Freedman

The War That Left Sir Jeremy Cold

169

David Wilson

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