The first cold warrior : Harry Truman, containment, and the remaking of liberal internationalism /
From the moment he took the oath of office in April 1945, Harry Truman was required to make difficult decisions in an increasingly dangerous world. The results-notably the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-were the building blocks of containment, a strate...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky
©2006.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcmrx |
| Tóm tắt: | From the moment he took the oath of office in April 1945, Harry Truman was required to make difficult decisions in an increasingly dangerous world. The results-notably the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-were the building blocks of containment, a strategic approach usually associated with George F. Kennan. In this fresh account, based on primary sources, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding argues that it was Truman himself, shaped by history, experience, and religious faith, who outlined and directed America's practice of containment. In so doing, he esta. |
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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) |
| Định dạng: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index. |
| số ISBN: | 0813171288 9780813171289 9780813138398 0813138396 128323257X 9781283232579 9786613232571 6613232572 9780813123929 0813123925 |