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Joe Alsop's Cold War book. The Alsop brothers, Yoder shows, were not only ultimate Washington insiders but diligent and imaginative reporters who relied on a vast network of sources for news that no one else reported.

Joe Alsop's Cold War book. He combines the story of these two brilliant columnists with the story of a pivotal era in the life of the nation.

Home Browse Books Book details, Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic. Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue. No newspaper columnist of the post-World War II period was more widely known than Joseph Wright Alsop, who, with his younger brother Stewart, wrote a thrice-weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune syndicate from early 1946 until 1958.

Yoder attributes Alsop's Cold War views mainly to the Progressive heritage from his uncle, Theodore Roosevelt. A friend of Alsop's and a columnist for the Washington Post Writer's Group, Yoder has written a sympathetic yet properly critical book

Yoder attributes Alsop's Cold War views mainly to the Progressive heritage from his uncle, Theodore Roosevelt. A sense of civility mandated certain restraints in domestic politics; a sense of national responsibility mandated a strong hand abroad. A friend of Alsop's and a columnist for the Washington Post Writer's Group, Yoder has written a sympathetic yet properly critical book. He demonstrates Alsop's myopia in attributing the Nationalist defeat in China mainly to the misjudgments of General Joseph W. Stilwell.

Yoder also recounts how Joe Alsop deconstructed the spurious claims of. .

Yoder also recounts how Joe Alsop deconstructed the spurious claims of Louis Budenz, a former Communist functionary who claimed before Congress that two China experts were Communist dupes. Then Yoder covers several controversies, such as the question of ""who lost China.

A militant cold warrior perennially sounding the tocsin against the worldwide Kremlin conspiracy, Alsop - along with his younger brother and collaborator, Stewart - also . MORE BY David C. Hendrickson. September/October 1995.

A militant cold warrior perennially sounding the tocsin against the worldwide Kremlin conspiracy, Alsop - along with his younger brother and collaborator, Stewart - also saw early the poison of McCarthyism and fought bravely against the various idiocies then.

Edwin M. Yoder writes that this book 'aims to be history with a biographical flavor. It is that, but also much more. It is a superb biography, suffused with a historical essence. That essence is both precise and rich-an unusual combination. The result is an extraordinarily well-written book, surpassing the above, modestly stated, aims of its author. Joseph W. Alsop was a flamboyant and idiosyncratic cold warrior, as Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. shows in this elegant study. Intelligent and engaging.

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Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue. ISBN 13: 9780807821909. Publication Date: 3/31/1995. 1995, University of North Carolina Press.