Description: Preface 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1999: The Hinge Was Poland 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 Appendix B Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2002 Notes Index

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