Melvyn P LefflerMelvyn P. Leffler is Edward R. Stettinius Professor of American History in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration an the Cold War and For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Jeffrey W. Legro is Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II, both from Cornell. Leffler and Legro are also coeditors of To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine. Read More Read Less