A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War - Brossura

Leffler, Melvyn P.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0804722188 ISBN 13: 9780804722186

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

In the United States the Cold War shaped our political culture, our institutions, and our national priorities. Abroad, it influenced the destinies of people everywhere. It divided Europe, split Germany, and engulfed the Third World. It led to a feverish arms race and massive sales of military equipment to poor nations. For at least four decades it left the world in a chronic state of tension where a miscalculation could trigger nuclear holocaust. Documents, oral histories, and memoirs illuminating the goals, motives, and fears of contemporary U.S. officials were already widely circulated and studied during the Cold War, but in the 1970s a massive declassification of documents from the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of Defense, and some intelligence agencies reinvigorated historical study of this war which became the definitive conflict of its time. While many historians used these records to explore specialized topics, this author marshals the considerable available evidence on behalf of an overall analysis of national security policy during the Truman years. To date, it is the most comprehensive history of that administration's progressive embroilment in the Cold War.

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L'autore:

Melvyn P. Leffler is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

Product Description:

This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman administration's progressive embroilment in the Cold War. 'A major historical work that will be the standard point of reference on the United States and Cold War ...This is the most comprehensive, perceptive and global account.' Adrian Bailey, The Times Higher Education Supplement 'A monumental study ...No book on the subject has been more eagerly awaited and none so fulsomely praised since publication. It is easy to see why. It is scholarly (massively so), panoramic, and at all times interesting. It also contains a number of crucial insights ...A wonderful book - the best yet on US foreign policy in the early Cold War years.' Michael Cox, International Affairs - Co-Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize

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• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0804722188
• ISBN 13: 9780804722186
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 712