"Keeping Tito Afloat offers the most comprehensive treatment of U.S.-Yugoslav relations during the Cold War. Lees has an excellent feel for the development of policy within the American government, and she provides insightful analysis of the motives and actions of key people in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. But the book is not simply focused on the U.S.; it offers valuable insight into Tito and his ability to resist American "plans" for him."-Wilson D. Miscamble, University of Notre Dame "This account is the best single source on United States-Yugoslav relations during the Truman and Eisenhower years."-Journal of American History Keeping Tito Afloat draws upon newly declassified documents to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in U.S. foreign policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the United States considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with...