The purpose of this volume, according to the author, “is to provide a concise record and interpretation of the international activities of the United States during the calendar year 1959.”
The story, as it unfolds, is one of increasing participation of the United States in world affairs. It describes, rather well, the events of a year that began with another threat of war over Berlin and closed with strengthened, though still tenuous, hopes for better relations between the Communist block and the Western nations.
Though the author does not pretend to have presented an exhaustive account of America’s foreign relations in the eventful year of 1959, he has nevertheless, in this reviewer’s opinion, presented an adequate survey of events that should have wide appeal not only to the student of world affairs, but to the general reader as well.
