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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: Kaeten Mistry, "The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Description: In the annals of cold war history Italy is rarely seen as a crucial locale. In his stimulating new book, The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Kaeten Mistry reveals how events in Italy proved surprisingly crucial in defining a conflict that dominated much of the twentieth century. For the United States, it marked the first intervention in the postwar era to influence events abroad through political warfare, the use of all measures 'short of war' in foreign affairs. Drawing particular attention to the Italian election of 18 April 1948, he explains how...