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Author:

Scarborough, Joe, author.

Title:

Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization / Joe Scarborough.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxii, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
Truman, Harry S.,--1884-1972.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Europe.
Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.

Contents:

A Strange Little Man -- Shockers -- Greek Fire -- Diplomatic Developments -- Met at Armageddon -- The Man from Missouri -- Gnawing Away -- Steer Clear of the Foreign World -- Passing the Torch -- From Building Roads to Bombing Cities -- Crafting the Doctrine -- The President Proposes -- Vandenberg and the Senate -- A House Divided -- Personnel Is Policy -- The Doctrine in Action -- Eleven Minutes -- Cold War Dawn -- Victory in Greece -- Aftermath.

Summary:

"In Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country's long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America's foreign policy for generations to come. On March 12, 1947, Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of containment that would soon become known as the Truman Doctrine. That doctrine pledged that the United States would "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The untested president's policy was a radical shift from 150 years of isolationism, but it would prove to be the pivotal moment that guaranteed Western Europe's freedom, the American Century's rise, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. " -- Inside front jacket flap.

ISBN:

0062950495
9780062950499

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1176320341

LCCN:

2020030732

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