A review by billblume
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis

4.0

I'm glad I did this as an audiobook, because while I was engaged with the material, I think it might have been a little more difficult to read through it in print. Gaddis does a great job providing an overview of the Cold War. He acknowledges that he's boiling it down a lot to make it easier for the layman to consume. Perhaps the thing that impresses me most about the book is that even though I lived through the last third of the Cold War, Gaddis makes me appreciate how much I didn't know or understand what was going on between the key players. I can't speak for how someone who didn't live through this book will react to it, but I can say that for myself, who was born in 1973, this proved fascinating to explore.