{"product_id":"constructing-the-monolith-marc-j-selverstone-9780674031791","title":"Constructing the Monolith","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the Cold War took shape during the late 1940s, policymakers in the United States and Great Britain displayed a marked tendency to regard international communism as a \"monolithic\" conspiratorial movement. The image of a \"Communist monolith\" distilled the messy realities of international relations into a neat, comprehensible formula. Its lesson was that all communists, regardless of their native land or political program, were essentially tools of the Kremlin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarc Selverstone recreates the manner in which the \"monolith\" emerged as a perpetual framework on both sides of the Atlantic. Though more pervasive and millennial in its American guise, this understanding also informed conceptions of international communism in its close ally Great Britain, casting the Kremlin's challenge as but one more in a long line of threats to freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis illuminating and important book not only explains the Cold War mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but also reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc J. Selverstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674031792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674031791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2009 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/23\/2009 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009","brand":"Marc J. Selverstone","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43920456581375,"sku":"9780674031791","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_12d1d827-83f5-412a-bece-7db52e6ca0b9.jpg?v=1680815468","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/constructing-the-monolith-marc-j-selverstone-9780674031791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}