Meeting the Communist Threat - Truman to Reagan

Zusatztext 'Paterson approaches a number of issues from fresh angles and provides detailed documentation on topics which others have treated only in passing'Richard Crockatt! University of East Anglia! Journal of American Studies Informationen zum Autor Thomas G. Paterson is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a past President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, author of several books, including Soviet-American Confrontation and On Every Front, and editor of Kennedy's Quest for Victory. Klappentext This compelling volume, written by the distinguished diplomatic historian Thomas G. Paterson, examines why and how Americans have perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat in the last half century. Zusammenfassung These essays deal with some major subjects in American diplomacy since the war, including Truman's foreign policy, George F. Kennan and America's 'containment' policy, the Point Four Program and the developing world, the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East, the Vietnam war, the CIA and Congressional Oversight of Intelligence, among others. Paterson takes the view that the US became locked in early on to a view of foreign policy based on combating the Communist menace, and so foreign policy was distorted by this overwhelming consideration.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas G. Paterson, Thomas G. Patterson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.1989
• EAN: 9780195045321
• ISBN: 978-0-19-504532-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas