"Concept and Controversy. Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market" by W. W. Rostow

Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.



The issues that Rostow discusses are these:
• The use of air power in Europe in the 1940s
• Working toward a united Europe during the Cold War
• The death of Joseph Stalin and early attempts to end the Cold War o Eisenhower's Open Skies policy
• The debate over foreign aid in the 1950s
• The economic revival of Korea o Efforts to control inflation in the 1960s
• Waiting for democracy in China
• The Vietnam War and Southeast Asian policy
• U.S. urban problems in disadvantaged neighborhoods
• The challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century