The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War
Last updated October 31, 2026
David Horowitz wrote this book in the 1960s, when he was a prominent figure in the New Left, long before his move to the political right. It is a critical history of American foreign policy in the early Cold War. Horowitz contends that the United States, not only the Soviet Union, drove the conflict, and he examines American decisions from the end of World War II through the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
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