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Author:

Steil, Benn, author.

Title:

The Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War / Benn Steil.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Marshall Plan.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Economic assistance, American.
Europe--Foreign economic relations--United States.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Europe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-577) and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- Crisis -- Rupture -- Plan -- Trap -- Unity -- Persuasion -- Sausage -- Subversion -- Passage -- Showdown -- Division -- Success? -- Echoes -- Appendix A: Truman doctrine speech -- Appendix B: Marshall's Harvard speech -- Appendix C: Data -- Appendix D: Maps.

Summary:

Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

ISBN:

1501102370
9781501102370

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1021054820

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