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Understanding The Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections
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Plot Summary of Understanding The Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections
"Prof. Ulam, one of the greatest historians of the 20th Century, describes growing up in a unique Polish-Jewish culture, in the shadow of the growing threat of Nazism, resulting in flight, with his famous brother, mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam, just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland. The book continues with his Harvard years, where he taught and interacted with some of the great figures of the 20th Century, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Henry Kissinger, Robert Kennedy, the latter two were both his students,and other luminaries. He was for many years, Director of the Russian Research Center. Finally, he discusses the origins, significant events and outcome of the Cold War, and (his specialty) Marxism and Communism with his characteristic wit and clarity."
Mary H.B. Ulam, Resident Scholar

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Plot
job/profession: - teacher/professor
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
War/Cloak & Dagger story? - escaping repressive govt.
War/Spying Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - scholar
Ethnicity - Jew
Nationality - Eastern European
How sensitive is this person? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Genius (really!)
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 (some)
Europe Yes
European country: - Eastern Europe
Century: - 1960's-1970's

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - sarcastic/sardonic
Commentary on society? Yes
Commentary on - war
Writer's slant towards subject: - neutral
Story of entire life, or part? - story of nearly entire life
If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 51%-75% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story? - 0-25% of book
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