Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 452 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253346266
Inhalt:
"Without question this is an important new addition to World War II and Cold War historiography.... Highly recommended." -- Douglas Brinkley, author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey beyond the White House"A remarkably objective, yet sympathetic, study of Louis Johnson's life and career. Now only half-remembered,... Johnson was a major national figure. Colorful, aggressive, independent-minded, egotistical, his strong views and conflicts with Dean Ach
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-435) and index
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Cover; contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bedford Blood; 2. Foot in the Door; 3. Like Feuding Schoolboys; 4. "Basic Shift in Mobilization Planning"; 5. Understanding FDR; 6. Surviving FDR; 7. "But You Promised Me"; 8. Personal Representative of the President; 9. Long Shot Pays Off; 10. Inside the Pentagon; 11. Revolt of the Admirals; 12. "Like a Meatchopper on Roundsteak"; 13. "My God, the Russians Have the Bomb"; 14. Entangling Alliance; 15. "Till the Dust Settles"; 16. Last Week in June; 17. "Give Me Two American Divisions and I Can Hold Korea"; 18. Means of Descent
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19. "Lou, I've Got to Ask You to Quit"20. "Lest Darkness Come"; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780253346261
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Louis Johnson and the Arming of America : The Roosevelt and Truman Years
Sprache:
Englisch
