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The authors describe them as the hidden architects behind the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and Cold War containment. Kennan, in particular, is regarded as "the father of containment." [4] The book portrays them as personifying an ideal of statesmanship marked by nonpartisanship, pragmatic internationalism, and aversion to ideological ...
Ferrell devoted particular attention to Truman, writing or editing more than a dozen books on his life and presidency, including the 1983 New York Times bestseller Dear Bess: The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959, [6] the 1994 biography Harry S. Truman: A Life, [7] 2002's The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman, [8] and 1994's Choosing ...
America, Russia, and the cold war, 1945-1996 (8th ed, McGraw-Hill, 1997). Long, Stephen. The CIA and the Soviet Bloc: Political Warfare, the Origins of the CIA and Countering Communism in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2020). Maddox, Robert James. From War to Cold War: The Education of Harry S. Truman (Routledge, 2019) online.
Harry Truman's ascension to the presidency after Franklin Roosevelt's death was a rocky one, and it came at a pivotal time in the nation's history. Once a senator who complained that the 32nd ...
In 2004, the President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering was created as a distinguished postdoctoral three-year appointment at Sandia National Laboratories. [360] In 2001, the University of Missouri established the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs to advance the study and practice of governance. [361]
NSC 68 was drafted under the guidance of Paul H. Nitze, Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, 1950–1953.. By 1950, U.S. national security policies required reexamination due to a series of events: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was operational, military assistance for European allies had begun, the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb and ...
The Cold War: An International History, 1947–1991 (1998), British perspective; short summary; Boyle Peter G. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism. 1993. The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 vol. 2010) online Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. Leffler, Melvyn P. and Odd Arne Westad, eds.
Reagan's War; Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean; The Red Web (book) Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire; Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower; List of books about the Romanian Revolution; Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata