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Elvis Presley: America’s Secret Weapon in the Cold War

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The King of Rock became a one-man special force against the East Germans, even as he questioned the validity of the conflict itself. Jon Wiener writes on the Cold War’s celebrity veteran in this excerpt from his new book, How We Forget the Cold War.

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