The First Cold Warrior

Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2006
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-2392-9 (ISBN)

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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 established a new liberal internationalismthat became the dominant bipartisan consensus on U.S. foreign policy in the post-World War II era.

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding is assistant professor of government and director of the Washington Program at Claremont McKenna College.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.5.2006
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8131-2392-5 / 0813123925
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-2392-9 / 9780813123929
Zustand	Neuware