This book explores the hundreds of years of history that led American Jewry into the middle of the Cold War. The book s primary focus is on the impact of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the founding of Israel on American and Soviet Jewry. The changes in American and Soviet culture, and the Cold War are explored in depth. Along with original documents, published histories, newspapers, journals, and magazines, Peter Golden also relied on his interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Larry Eagleburger, Richard Perle, and many other individuals connected to the events.

Auteur
Peter Golden is an award-winning journalist, biographer, novelist, and historian. Some of his work has appeared in the Detroit Free Press Magazine, Albany Times Union, New Jersey Monthly, Beyond Computing, Midstream, and the Forward. Golden s Quiet Diplomat, a biography of industrialist and political insider Max M. Fisher, was widely reviewed and was translated into Hebrew. With J. Stanley Shaw, Golden wrote I Rest My Case, a memoir of Shaw s childhood years under the supervision of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and his career as a preeminent bankruptcy lawyer. Golden s most recent novel, Comeback Love, is published by Atria Books. He lives outside Albany, New York, with his wife and son.