Umfang:
1 online resource (634 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118300756
Serie:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History Ser v.67
Inhalt:
With contributions from the most accomplished scholars in the field, this fascinating companion to one of America's pivotal presidents assesses Harry S. Truman as a historical figure, politician, president and strategist. Assembles many of the top historians in their fields who assess critical aspects of the Truman presidency Provides new approaches to the historiography of Truman and his policies Features a variety of historiographic methodologies.
Inhalt:
A COMPANION TO HARRY S. TRUMAN -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Considering Truman in Historical Perspective -- 1 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership -- The Contemporary View -- The Revival of Plain-Speaking, Give'em Hell Harry -- Profiles in Courage -- The Defects of his Qualities -- How Truthful, Courageous, and Pre-modern? -- The Truman Doctrine but the Marshall Plan -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Part II Enduring Questions -- 3 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration -- The Atomic Bomb -- The Wisconsin School -- "Postrevisionism" -- National Security -- New Research -- REFERENCES -- 4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective -- Orthodoxy, Revisionism, and Postrevisionism -- Postwar -- The Cold War in Context -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Part III Truman, the State, and the World System -- 6 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governance and the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration -- The End of World War II -- Planning the Postwar World: Reconstruction and Deconstruction -- The Marshall Plan, European Integration, and the Cold War -- The Superpowers and the Cold War -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 7 NSC-68 and the National Security State -- The Origins of the National Security State -- Studies in National Security -- The National Security Thesis -- NSC-68 -- Where to Go from Here? -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman's Foreign Policy Advisers -- James F. Byrnes -- George F. Kennan -- George C. Marshall -- Dean G. Acheson -- Clark M. Clifford.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781118300749
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118300749
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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