On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon Designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor," and magazine articles appeared with such headlines as "Are We Americans Going Soft?" In the White House, President Eisenhower seemed to do nothing, leading Kennedy in...

Bibliographical essay: p. 195-209.

A brief history of the struggle between the isolationists and the internationalists during the turbulent 1930's, focusing on President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Essays on materials at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library presented at a conference held in the library in Jan. 1980.