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Jon Wiener teaches American history at the University of California-Irvine and is a contributing editor at the Nation. His latest book, "How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America" (University of California Press), has just been published. Cross-posted from TomDispatch.

Mr. Gordon, professor and chair of history at the University of Iowa, is the author of Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. He is a writer for the History News Service. Attribution to the History News Service and the author is required for reprinting and redistribution of this article.