Contents

• Introduction: struggling for the world / Christian G. Appy
• Slouching toward Bethlehem: culture, diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam / Mark Bradley
• Family ties and political obligation: the discourse of adoption and the Cold War commitment to Asia / Christina Klein
• Feeding beggars: class, caste, and status in Indo -U.S. relations, 1947-1964 / Andrew J. Rotter
• America’s "best propagandists": Italian Americans and the 1948 "letters to Italy" campaign / Wendy L. Wall
• Who’s the real ambassador? exploding Cold War racial ideology / Penny M. Von Eschen
• The road to Vietnam: modernization theory in fact and fiction / Jonathan Nashel
• Discursive subversions: Time Magazine, the CIA overthrow of Musaddiq, and the installation of the Shah / John Foran
• Eisenhower’s Guatemalan doodle, or: how to draw, deny, and take credit for a third world coup / Christian G. Appy
• "A world made safe for diversity": the Vietnam lobby and the politics of pluralism, 1945-1963 / James T. Fisher
• "We are all highly adventurous": Fidel Castro and the romance of the white guerrilla, 1957-1958 / Van Gosse
• From Black Power to Civil Rights: Julian Mayfield and African American expatriates in Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966 / Kevin Gaines