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Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Henry Kissinger and the American Century

The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente

Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama

Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time.

Professor Jeffrey is distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of numerous books on Germany as well as Israel, including Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989, and his latest Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 which was published on April 14th, the release date of this episode. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949

Putin’s Continuities: From ‘Israelis as Nazis’ to ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine (Times of Israel)

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich

Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989

Professor Sargent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a dual appointment with the history department and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Professor Sargent is the author of the brilliant A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of Ernest May

A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s

Pax Americana: Sketches for an Undiplomatic History

Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition

The Origins of Alliances

Rebecca Herman

Professor Lawrence is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, as well an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of numerous books including The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era which is the subject of our conversation this week. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

The End of Ambition

The Vietnam War: A Concise International History

Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam

Mission Intolerable: Harrison Salisbury's Trip to Hanoi and the Limits of Dissent against the Vietnam War

Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq

This is the finale for Season 2 of IR Talk. Tune in for every answer to the question of "Did Athenians Students in the time of the Peloponnesian War know more than current students?"

Make sure to look out for a few bonus episodes that will be released during the next few weeks!