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"Failed Illusions" featured in "US News and World Report" article

October 15, 2006

Charles Gati's new book, "Failed Illusions," published in the CWIHP Book Series in September 2006, was featured prominently in "Revolution! The Hungarian uprising 50 years later; how it changed the Cold War", a Special Report by Alex Kingsbury in the latest issue of U.S. News and World Report magazine (October 9th issue). The report can be found at http://www.usnews.com.

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