The Truman presidency /
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Other Authors / Creators: | Lacey, Michael James. |
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Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Program on American Society and Politics (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) National Museum of American History (U.S.) |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ; Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
Series: | Woodrow Wilson Center series.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and summary: the Truman era in retrospect
- 1. The mind and character of Harry S. Truman
- Part I. Domestic Politics and Issues
- 2. Forging America's postwar order: domestic politics and political economy in the age of Truman
- 3. Attitudes toward industry in the Truman administration: the macroeconomic origins of microeconomic policy
- 4. Labor in the Truman era: origins of the 'private welfare state'
- 5. Postwar American society: dissent and social reform
- 6. 'Some sort of peace': President Truman, the American people, and the atomic bomb
- Part II. Foreign Policy and National Defense
- 7. The national security state reconsidered: Truman and economic containment, 1945-1950
- 8. The insecurities of victory: the United States and the perception of the Soviet threat after World War II
- 9. Alliance and autonomy: European identity and US foreign policy objectives in the Truman years
- 10. US policy in the Near East: the triumphs and tribulations of the Truman administration
- 11. Toward a post-colonial order: Truman administration policies toward South and Southeast Asia
- 12. Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia
- 13. The Truman administration and the Korean War
- About the authors
- Index