A Companion to Harry S. Truman (eBook)

Daniel S. Margolies (Herausgeber)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-30074-9 (ISBN)

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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.

• 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

Autor

Dan Margolies is Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization (2006) and Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898 (2011).

Inhalt

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

Daniel S. Margolies

Part I Considering Truman in Historical Perspective 7

1 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory 9

Sean J. Savage

2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership 26

Steven Casey

Part II Enduring Questions 47

3 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration 49

Jeremi Suri

4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
67

Sean L. Malloy

5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective
87

Amanda Kay McVety

Part III Truman, the State, and the World System 109

6 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governance
and the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration
111

Francine McKenzie

7 NSC-68 and the National Security State 131

Curt Cardwell

8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman's Foreign Policy
Advisers 159

Benjamin A. Coates

Part IV The Truman Presidency and the Shaping of Postwar
American Society 189

9 Truman, Reconversion, and the Emergence of the Post-World War
II Consumer Society 191

Susannah Walker

10 The Fair Deal 210

Jason Scott Smith

11 The Election of 1948 222

Dean J. Kotlowski

12 The Truman Administration and the Public Policy of Civilian
Defense: Making the Best of a Nightmare 246

Andrew D. Grossman

13 The Environmental History of the Truman Years, 1945-53
260

Mark Harvey

14 Truman and Civil Rights 287

Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford

Part V Truman's Foreign Policy 303

15 Great Britain and American Hegemony 305

Kathleen Britt Rasmussen

16 The Truman Doctrine 327

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding

17 Harry S. Truman and the Marshall Plan 347

Robert H. Landrum

18 Truman and the Middle East 362

Kelly J. Shannon

19 Harry S. Truman's Latin American Policy 389

Michael Donoghue

20 Truman and NATO 410

Stephanie Trombley Averill

21 Truman, the United Nations, and the Origins of the Postwar
World Order 428

Robert McGreevey

22 The Truman Administration and Cold War Neutrals 436

T. Michael Ruddy

23 The Legacies of Nuremberg in International Law and American
Policy 453

Jinee Lokaneeta

Part VI America and the Postwar Pacific Rim 463

24 The Occupation of Japan: A History of Its Histories 465

Hiroshi Kitamura

25 The Birth of a Rivalry: Sino-American Relations During the
Truman Administration 484

Gregg Brazinsky

26 Conflicts in Korea 498

James I. Matray

27 Setting the Pattern: The Truman Administration and Southeast
Asia 532

Mark Atwood Lawrence

References 553

Further Reading 598

Index 605

Rezensionen

"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."
(Expofairs.com, 26 June 2013)

"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."

- Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist
University

"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."

- Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at
Boulder

"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."

- Petra Goedde, Temple University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 20th Century America • American Social & Cultural History • American Social & Cultural History • Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert • FDR, Cold War, World War II, atom bomb • Geschichte • History • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas • Truman, Harry S.
• ISBN-10: 1-118-30074-2 / 1118300742
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-30074-9 / 9781118300749