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Informationen zum Autor Dan Margolies is Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization (2006) and Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898 (2011). Klappentext Acceding to the US presidency on the death of the much-loved Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman faced a huge array of intractable problems as World War II was reaching its destructive denouement. Truman quickly became a key architect of the post-war era, laying the foundations for America's attempt at global hegemony during the formative period of the Cold War.This companion offers a wide-ranging presentation of the many different interpretations of the Truman presidency and its significance in American and world history. Authored by a selection of the most accomplished scholars in the field, the essays focus on essential historiographic themes and questions. The content maintains a disciplined emphasis on Truman as a person and politician, on his administration, and on the long term impact of his policies during his administration. Eschewing any one methodology or approach, it explores the varying views of Truman as a historical figure of great complexity, changeability, and continuing fascination. "An invaluable source for all who study the early cold war period. Margolies has brought together a group of highly talented scholars who synthesize the latest historiography of the Truman years in domestic and global context." ("Expofairs.com", 26 June "2013"")" Zusammenfassung With contributions from the most accomplished scholars in the field, this fascinating companion to one of America's pivotal presidents assesses Harry S. Truman as a historical figure, politician, president and strategist.* Assembles many of the top historians in their fields who assess critical aspects of the Truman presidency* Provides new approaches to the historiography of Truman and his policies* Features a variety of historiographic methodologies Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Daniel S. MargoliesPart I Considering Truman in Historical Perspective 71 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory 9Sean J. Savage2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership 26Steven CaseyPart II Enduring Questions 473 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration 49Jeremi Suri4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb 67Sean L. Malloy5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective 87Amanda Kay McVetyPart III Truman, the State, and the World System 1096 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governance and the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration 111Francine McKenzie7 NSC-68 and the National Security State 131Curt Cardwell8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman's Foreign Policy Advisers 159Benjamin A. CoatesPart IV The Truman Presidency and the Shaping of Postwar American Society 1899 Truman, Reconversion, and the Emergence of the Post-World War II Consumer Society 191Susannah Walker10 The Fair Deal 210Jason Scott Smith11 The Election of 1948 222Dean J. Kotlowski12 The Truman Administration and the Public Policy of Civilian Defense: Making the Best of a Nightmare 246Andrew D. Grossman13 The Environmental History of the Truman Years, 1945-53 260Mark Harvey14 Truman and Civil Rights 287Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. FordPart V Truman's Foreign Policy 30315 Great Britain and American Hegemony 305Kathleen Britt Rasmussen16 The Truman Doctrine 327Elizabeth Edwards Spalding17 Harry S. Truman and the Marshall Plan 347Robert H. Landrum18 Truman and the Middle East 362Kelly J. Shannon19 Harry S. Truman's Latin American Policy 389Michael Donoghue20 Truman and NATO 410St...
