I was asked to choose “The Best Books to Reconsider What the Cold War Really Was” for Shepherd.com. My choice was:

• Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism (2012) by Colleen Doody
• Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil (2016) by Benjamin A. Cowan
• African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World (2015) by Priya Lal
• Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America’s Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia (2017) by Eugene Ford
• Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War (2019) by Taomo Zhou

My introduction and discussion for each book is available at: https://shepherd.com/best-books/reconsider-what-the-cold-war-really-was