This 187 page book by Norman Graebner covers the key American policy makers of the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. The book covers: setting the stage of American policy towards Europe from Roosevelt to Truman; the European Defense Community, Political Community and the Coal and Steel Community Loan; the sensitive Euratom agreement; European disagreements and the OECD; the Kennedy team and its inheritance; the Multi-Lateral Force failure; De Gaulle's conflicting world view; and the Atlantic partnership, Nassau …showed first 75 words of 1474 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1474 total…Cold War crisis it can be seen that party lines are not necessarily a definitive boundary which requires that presidents of different parties have diffent forms of foriegn policy. The Cold War era illustrates how Eisenhower and Kennedy followed a similiar program which both felt would serve the common good of the nation and it worked. The presidents successfully helped achieve the widely-acclaimed goal of containment and contributed to the world we live in today.