{"id":4655,"date":"2017-08-16T20:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2017-08-16T20:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:06:33","slug":"299o-the-first-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/299o-the-first-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"299O: The (first) Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read this when I was in Middle School in the late 1960s\/ early 1970s and I had a brother in active duty in Vietnam trying to stop the \u201cDomino Effect\u201d of Communism from overtaking the free world.\u00a0 I believe it was written by an author who specialized in this genre.\u00a0 The plot was that the United States was being drawn into a war between the then Red China and Soviet Union by both sides that was threatening to become nuclear.\u00a0 The US President was keeping the nation neutral, until warheads were pointed at the opponent\u2019s shores, MAD was close, and the leaders of both governments were imploring that the United States side with them to turn the tide.\u00a0 The end of the book never said which country the US supports, but the Soviet leader says something like, \u201cyou need to fight on our side \u2013 at least we both are of the white race\u201d near the cliffhanger of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to quote this book in a text book I am writing these many years later, but cannot identify it.\u00a0 Please help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this when I was in Middle School in the late 1960s\/ early 1970s and I had a brother in active duty in Vietnam trying to stop the \u201cDomino Effect\u201d of Communism from overtaking the free world.\u00a0 I believe it was written by an author who specialized in this genre.\u00a0 The plot was that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}