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Date: 2017-05-30 03:55 pm (UTC)ISFDB suggests this version came out in December of 1981. Ronald Reagan had won the U.S. presidential election about one year earlier, fanning the flames of anti-Communism along the campaign trail.
Might Jim Baen have decided that the political climate was favorable to bring back a flag-draped novel of Cold War paranoia? Would one year have been enough time to get it into the bookstores and bus stations?
Would these considerations bring Baen to ask for a revision, rather than simply Presenting "a pretty good near-future novel written in 1955?"
Now I am curious to read Pohl's foreword and afterword.