The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

book, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White and the Making of a NewWorld Order , was called “a triumph of economic and diplomatic history” by the Financial Times , “a superb history” by The Wall Street Journal , and “the gold standard on its subject” by The New York Times. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance between Astrophysics and the Military Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, $30/ hardcover, $14.87/Kindle, 576 pages. Scientists and soldiers both seek to understand the space domain. This common curiosity has given rise to a close relationship that authors Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang explore across centuries—from the days of Galileo and the first telescope, to the Cold War-era “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative, to the latest international agreements attempting to ban weapons in space. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, director of its Hayden Planetarium and the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry . Avis Lang is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945 Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner, editors; University Press of Kentucky, 2018, $60/hardcover, $48/Kindle, 330 pages. This diplomatic history collection brings together 11 essays that examine factors ranging from elections and congressio- nal influence to the role of religion and regionalism, and trace the influence of those issues on the his- tory of U.S. foreign relations since 1945. (Editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner frame the discussion with introductory and closing chapters.) In the process, the contributors expand our understanding of the history of U.S. foreign policy. Andrew L. Johns is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center for Inter- national Studies. Mitchell B. Lerner is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. n 58 NOVEMBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL