Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States Harry S Truman 1948 Volume 4

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

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Author : Truman, Harry S.
Publisher : Best Books on
Release : 1963-01-01
File : 1116 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781623761257


Harry S Truman And The War Scare Of 1948

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Kofsky reveals how Truman and the two most important members of his cabinet, Marshall and Forrestall, systematically deceived Congress and the public into thinking that the USSR was about to start World War III.

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Genre : History
Author : Frank Kofsky
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Release : 1995-01-15
File : 448 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0312123299


Colonial Crucible

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At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State reveals how this experiment in direct territorial rule subtly but profoundly shaped U.S. policy and practice—both abroad and, crucially, at home. Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano, the essays in this volume show how the challenge of ruling such far-flung territories strained the U.S. state to its limits, creating both the need and the opportunity for bold social experiments not yet possible within the United States itself. Plunging Washington’s rudimentary bureaucracy into the white heat of nationalist revolution and imperial rivalry, colonialism was a crucible of change in American statecraft. From an expansion of the federal government to the creation of agile public-private networks for more effective global governance, U.S. empire produced far-reaching innovations. Moving well beyond theory, this volume takes the next step, adding a fine-grained, empirical texture to the study of U.S. imperialism by analyzing its specific consequences. Across a broad range of institutions—policing and prisons, education, race relations, public health, law, the military, and environmental management—this formative experience left a lasting institutional imprint. With each essay distilling years, sometimes decades, of scholarship into a concise argument, Colonial Crucible reveals the roots of a legacy evident, most recently, in Washington’s misadventures in the Middle East.

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Genre : History
Author : Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release : 2009-05-15
File : 706 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780299231033


Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States Harry S Truman 1952 1953 Volume 8

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

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Author : Truman, Harry S.
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Release : 1966-01-01
File : 1380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781623761295


Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States Harry S Truman 1950 Volume 6

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

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Author : Truman, Harry S.
Publisher : Best Books on
Release : 1965-01-01
File : 908 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781623761271


Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States Harry S Truman 1952 53

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : United States Government Printing Office
Publisher : General Services Administration
Release : 1999-06
File : 1380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0160588480


Harry Truman And Civil Rights

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Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up--the border state of Missouri--segregation was accepted and largely unquestioned. Both his maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves, and his beloved mother, victimized by Yankee forces, railed against Abraham Lincoln for the remainder of her ninety-four years. When Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, Michael R. Gardner points out, Washington, DC, in many ways resembled Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid rule circa 1985. Truman's background notwithstanding, Gardner shows that it was Harry Truman--not Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, or John F. Kennedy--who energized the modern civil rights movement, a movement that basically had stalled since Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves. Gardner recounts Truman's public and private actions regarding black Americans. He analyzes speeches, private conversations with colleagues, the executive orders that shattered federal segregation policies, and the appointments of like-minded civil rights activists to important positions. Among those appointments was the first black federal judge in the continental United States. Gardner characterizes Truman's evolution from a man who grew up in a racist household into a president willing to put his political career at mortal risk by actively supporting the interests of black Americans.

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Genre : African Americans
Author : Michael R. Gardner
Publisher : SIU Press
Release : 2002
File : 326 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0809388960


Winning The Peace

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Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Nicolaus Mills
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Release : 2008-01-01
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781620458686


Containing Coexistence

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A study of Finland's role in Soviet-American relations during the onset of the Cold War. It examines Finland's attempts to remain neutral after World War II and not join the people's democracies in 1945, and covers the Finnish Solution, whereby Finland was allowed to coexist with the Soviets.

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Genre : History
Author : Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Release : 1997
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0873385586


The United States And The Berlin Blockade 1948 1949

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Avi Shlaim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2023-04-28
File : 478 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780520337343