A Companion to Harry S. Truman (eBook)

Daniel S. Margolies (Herausgeber)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-30075-6 (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

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

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Notes on Contributors

Stephanie Trombley Averill is an Assistant Professor of History at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her dissertation, “Forging the West in Words and Iron,” examined the rhetoric of identity accompanying and supplementing the decision to rearm the Federal Republic of Germany and its incorporation into NATO. She is currently researching the first Status of Forces Agreements and the problem of sovereignty within “free world” alliance systems.

Gregg Brazinsky is an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University. His first book, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy appeared in 2007 from University of North Carolina Press. He is completing a new book on Sino-American competition in the Third World during the Cold War.

Curt Cardwell is Associate Professor of History at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He is the author of NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War published by Cambridge University Press.

Steven Casey is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and the War against Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2001), and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics and Public Opinion (Oxford University Press, 2008), which won the 2010 Truman Book Award.

Benjamin A. Coates is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University, where he teaches the history of the U.S. and the World. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2010 and has received fellowships from the U.S. Institute of Peace and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His current book manuscript, entitled Legalist Empire, explores the creation of the American international law profession and the role of lawyers in building an American empire in the early twentieth century.

Michael Donoghue received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Rhode Island. In 2006 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut where he studied under Thomas G. Paterson and Frank Costigliola. He was a 2002–3 recipient of a Fulbright Overseas Research Grant which he spent in the Republic of Panama. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University where his specialty is U.S. foreign relations history and the history of U.S.–Latin American relations. His book Borderland on the Isthmus: Zonians, Panamanians, West Indians, and the Struggle of the Canal Zone 1939–1979 is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Charles H. Ford, Ph.D., is a Professor of History at Norfolk State University (NSU). He also serves as the Interim Associate Dean of the University's College of Liberal Arts and as Acting Chair of its History Department. In the 1990s, his primary research areas were in eighteenth-century Britain and the Atlantic world, and he published Hannah More: A Critical Biography in 1996. In this century, Dr. Ford has pursued and published – along with his colleagues, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander of NSU and Dr. Jeffrey Littlejohn, once of NSU and now at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas – a number of projects explicitly dealing with the desegregation of public schools in Norfolk, Virginia. Ford and Littlejohn's Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools is under contract at the University of Virginia Press.

Andrew D. Grossman is Professor of Political Science at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. He works in the area of American political development, homeland security policy, and national security policy. He is the author of Neither Dead Nor Red: Civilian Defense and American Political Development During the Early Cold War (2001). He has also published articles in the area of civilian defense in the United States and national security policy. Currently he is working on completing a book on internal security and policing comparing the United States, Great Britain, and Israel.

Mark Harvey is Professor of History at North Dakota State University, Fargo. His scholarship focuses on the American West and its environmental history. He is the author of A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement (Seattle, 2000) and Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (Seattle 2005). He is now at work on an interpretive biography of the western historian and conservation writer Bernard DeVoto.

Hiroshi Kitamura is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan (Cornell University Press, 2010), which won the 16th Shimizu Hiroshi Award from the Japanese Association for American Studies. He is currently working on two projects: a study of transnational Japanese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s and a relational history of Hollywood and East Asian cinemas during the Cold War.

Dean J. Kotlowski is Professor of History at Salisbury University. In 2008 he was a Fulbright professor at De La Salle University in Manila, the Philippines. He is the author of Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) and nearly 20 scholarly journal articles on the presidency, civil rights, and foreign and domestic policy, the most recent of which is “Independence or Not? Paul V. McNutt, Manuel L. Quezon, and the Reexamination of Philippine Independence, 1937–9,” International History Review (September 2010). His next book, Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR, will be published by Indiana University Press.

Robert H. Landrum is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort. He is the author of several articles on early modern Scotland, Scottish emigration, modern Europe, and the Atlantic world. He is currently editing a cache of documents to be published by the Scottish History Society.

Mark Atwood Lawrence, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam, published in 2005 by the University of California Press, and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, published by Oxford University Press in 2008. He has also published articles and essays on various topics in Cold War history and is now at work on a study of U.S. policy-making toward the Third World during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. His research interests include the civil rights movement, school desegregation, and the conflict over cross-town busing. Littlejohn has published articles on the civil rights movement in Tidewater, Virginia, and he is co-author with Charles H. Ford of a forthcoming book, Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools.

Jinee Lokaneeta is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Drew University, New Jersey. Her areas of interest include law and violence, public law, political theory, jurisprudence, and cultural studies. She has published in journals such as Studies in Law, Politics and Society; Economic and Political Weekly; Theory and Event; and Law, Culture, and Humanities. She is the author of Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India (New York University Press, 2011).

Sean L. Malloy is an Associate Professor of History and member of the founding faculty at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan (Cornell University Press, 2008) as well as articles dealing with nuclear targeting in World War II and the radiation effects of the atomic bomb. His current research project explores the links between black power, the Third World, and the Cold War with an emphasis on the radical internationalism of the Black Panther Party.

Daniel S. Margolies is Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Thomas J. McCormick. Margolies has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar/Lecturer at Sogang University in Korea, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Faculty Fellow at the American Center for Mongolian Studies in Ulaanbaatar. He is the author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) and Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877–1898 (University of Georgia Press, 2011). He is currently working on a study of Conjunto music of South Texas and a comparative global history of Foreign Trade Zones in the United States and Special Economic Zones across the world system.

James I. Matray earned his doctoral degree in U.S. History at the University of Virginia, where he studied under...

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• 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: 1-118-30075-0 / 1118300750
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-30075-6 / 9781118300756