cover image Out of the Cold

Out of the Cold

Robert McNamara. Holiday House, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-72515-0

McNamara maintains that Washington's reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev's ``new thinking'' has been unduly skeptical, cautious and unimaginative. Although likely to be g outdated in paperback, the hardcover offered ``a useful review of the origins and evolution of the Cold War, the practical results of Gorbachev's foreign and defense policy initiatives, as well as Western reaction to the dramatic shift in the Soviet position,'' stated PW. (Sept.)