Wisconsin Politics and Government: America's Laboratory of Democracy

Abstract

lowing World War II are simply too similar to the geopolitical realms of the Cold War to engender any new or unexpected patterns.For much of this section, America and "the West" are one and the same.Again, geographically peripheral areas, such as the "polar confrontation" of the Cold War, offer the most compelling and thoughtprovoking reactions to the nation's "victory" over communism.But these criticisms are trifling compared to Meinig's overall contribution.This is a text that deserves wide circulation and one that compels others to heed his warnings about excluding geography.Without this perspective it is doubtful that anyone can fully understand America's national contours.