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Fund of the United States, and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Counselor of the State Department. Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy Victoria Phillips, Oxford University Press, 2020, $47.95/hardcover, e-book available, 472 pages. During the Cold War, modern dance (like jazz and avant-garde painting) was seen as an art form embodying American values of individualism and freedom. Accepting the State Depart- ment’s repeated invitations, dancer Martha Graham and her troupes enthusiastically represented the United States all over the world for some 30 years, under every president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan. Victoria Phillips analyzes the aesthetic and political philosophy underpinning Graham’s choreography, and discusses her performances. As the book’s title indicates, she concludes that Graham truly multiplied the power of American cultural diplomacy through the unfettered language of movement and dance. Victoria Phillips specializes in Cold War history, cultural diplomacy and international relations. Her articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and American Communist History to Dance Chronicle and Dance Research Journal , and she has curated exhibits on dance and politics in Europe and Washington, D.C. Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age Frank Leith Jones, University Press of Kansas, 2021, $29.95/hardcover, e-book available, 448 pages. In 2009, AFSA conferred its Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy Award on Sam Nunn, who had just stepped down from the Senate after four terms representing Georgia. This biography underscores just how emi- nently worthy he is of such recognition. In this first full account of Nunn’s senatorial career, Frank Leith Jones reveals how, as a congressional leader and “shadow secretary of defense,” he helped win the Cold War, constructing the foundation for the defense and foreign policies of the 1970s and 1980s that secured the United States and its allies from the Soviet threat. Frank Leith Jones is professor of security studies and the General C. Marshall Chair of Military Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His published work includes Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam and American Cold War Strategy (2013). The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World John Norris, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, $40/hardcover, e-book available, 338 pages. This year, the U.S. Agency for Inter- national Development marks its 60th anniversary. As journalist and foreign policy expert John Norris details in this unofficial but thorough history, the agency can fairly lay claim to triumphs including the eradication of smallpox, the Green Revolution and family planning programs. Yet it has also experienced failures in places such as Vietnam and Iraq. Whatever the balance of successes and setbacks, USAID continues to improve millions of lives all over the world. John Norris has served in a variety of senior roles in government, international institutions and nonprofits. In 2014, President Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s Global Development Council, a body charged with advising the administration on effective development practices. Norris currently works at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (See his article on p. 27. ) The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy Aaron Donaghy, Cambridge University Press, 2021, $59.99/hardcover, e-book available, 288 pages. Focusing on the critical period between 1977 and 1985, Aaron Donaghy examines the complex his- tory of America’s largest peacetime military buildup—which was, in turn, 56 NOVEMBER 2021 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL