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A Companion to Harry S. Truman


A Companion to Harry S. Truman


Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History 1. Aufl.

von: Daniel S. Margolies

155,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 30.07.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781118300756
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 632

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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. <ul> <li>Assembles many of the top historians in their fields who assess critical aspects of the Truman presidency</li> <li>Provides new approaches to the historiography of Truman and his policies</li> <li>Features a variety of historiographic methodologies</li> </ul>
<p>List of Illustrations ix</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xi</p> <p>Acknowledgments xvii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Daniel S. Margolies</i></p> <p><b>Part I Considering Truman in Historical Perspective 7</b></p> <p>1 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory 9<br /> <i>Sean J. Savage</i></p> <p>2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman’s Leadership 26<br /> <i>Steven Casey</i></p> <p><b>Part II Enduring Questions 47</b></p> <p>3 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration 49<br /> <i>Jeremi Suri</i></p> <p>4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb 67<br /> <i>Sean L. Malloy</i></p> <p>5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective 87<br /> <i>Amanda Kay McVety</i></p> <p><b>Part III Truman, the State, and the World System 109</b></p> <p>6 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governance and the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration 111<br /> <i>Francine McKenzie<br /> </i></p> <p>7 NSC-68 and the National Security State 131<br /> <i>Curt Cardwell</i></p> <p>8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman’s Foreign Policy Advisers 159<br /> <i>Benjamin A. Coates</i></p> <p><b>Part IV The Truman Presidency and the Shaping of Postwar American Society 189</b></p> <p>9 Truman, Reconversion, and the Emergence of the Post-World War II Consumer Society 191<br /> <i>Susannah Walker</i></p> <p>10 The Fair Deal 210<br /> <i>Jason Scott Smith</i></p> <p>11 The Election of 1948 222<br /> <i>Dean J. Kotlowski</i></p> <p>12 The Truman Administration and the Public Policy of Civilian Defense: Making the Best of a Nightmare 246<br /> <i>Andrew D. Grossman</i></p> <p>13 The Environmental History of the Truman Years, 1945–53 260<br /> <i>Mark Harvey</i></p> <p>14 Truman and Civil Rights 287<br /> <i>Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford</i></p> <p><b>Part V Truman’s Foreign Policy 303</b></p> <p>15 Great Britain and American Hegemony 305<br /> <i>Kathleen Britt Rasmussen</i></p> <p>16 The Truman Doctrine 327<br /> <i>Elizabeth Edwards Spalding</i></p> <p>17 Harry S. Truman and the Marshall Plan 347<br /> <i>Robert H. Landrum</i></p> <p>18 Truman and the Middle East 362<br /> <i>Kelly J. Shannon<br /> </i></p> <p>19 Harry S. Truman’s Latin American Policy 389<br /> <i>Michael Donoghue</i></p> <p>20 Truman and NATO 410<br /> <i>Stephanie Trombley Averill</i></p> <p>21 Truman, the United Nations, and the Origins of the Postwar World Order 428<br /> <i>Robert McGreevey</i></p> <p>22 The Truman Administration and Cold War Neutrals 436<br /> <i>T. Michael Ruddy</i></p> <p>23 The Legacies of Nuremberg in International Law and American Policy 453<br /> <i>Jinee Lokaneeta</i></p> <p><b>Part VI America and the Postwar Pacific Rim 463</b></p> <p>24 The Occupation of Japan: A History of Its Histories 465<br /> <i>Hiroshi Kitamura</i></p> <p>25 The Birth of a Rivalry: Sino-American Relations During the Truman Administration 484<br /> <i>Gregg Brazinsky</i></p> <p>26 Conflicts in Korea 498<br /> <i>James I. Matray</i></p> <p>27 Setting the Pattern: The Truman Administration and Southeast Asia 532<br /> <i>Mark Atwood Lawrence</i></p> <p>References 553</p> <p>Further Reading 598</p> <p>Index 605</p>
<p>“An invaluable source for all who study the early cold war period. Margolies has brought together a group of highly talented scholars who synthesize the latest historiography of the Truman years in domestic and global context.”  (<i>Expofairs.com</i>, 26 June <i>2013</i><i>)</i></p>
<b>Dan Margolies</b> is Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of<i> Henry Watterson and the</i> <i>New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization</i> (2006) and <i>Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898</i> (2011).
Acceding to the US presidency on the death of the much-loved Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman faced a huge array of intractable problems as World War II was reaching its destructive denouement. Truman quickly became a key architect of the post-war era, laying the foundations for America’s attempt at global hegemony during the formative period of the Cold War.<br /> <br /> This companion offers a wide-ranging presentation of the many different interpretations of the Truman presidency and its significance in American and world history. Authored by a selection of the most accomplished scholars in the field, the essays focus on essential historiographic themes and questions. The content maintains a disciplined emphasis on Truman as a person and politician, on his administration, and on the long term impact of his policies during his administration. Eschewing any one methodology or approach, it explores the varying views of Truman as a historical figure of great complexity, changeability, and continuing fascination.
<p>“Spanning domestic and international affairs, Daniel Margolies’ impressive volume reveals Harry Truman’s policies, attitudes, politics, the world he inhabited, and the wider world he helped create.  No better recent volume exists on for understanding his presidency.”<br /> – <i>Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University </i></p> <p>“By its biographical and policy approach, this volume shows why the Truman administration, and the President himself, had such enduring legacies.  A fascinating look, through the eyes of scholars, at a pivotal era that shaped American foreign policy and the domestic arena.”<br /> – <i>Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder</i></p> <p>“An invaluable source for all who study the early cold war period.  Margolies has brought together a group of highly talented scholars who synthesize the latest historiography of the Truman years in domestic and global context.”<br /> – <i>Petra Goedde, Temple University</i></p>

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