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Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
Another Such Victory President Truman and the Cold War 19451953 - Stanford Nuclear Age Series Author:Arnold A. Offner "This major book is a critical revisionist portrait of Trumans personal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. . . . The importance of the scholarship, the authors careful voice of reasonable criticism, the lucid writing styleall should give the book a popular reader... more »ship that reaches beyond the university and foreign policy publics."J. Gary Clifford, University of Connecticut "In this cogently argued and meticulously documented study, Arnold Offner challenges popular attitudes about Harry Truman's leadership. Another Such Victory presents a powerful indictment of a president whose inexperience, provincialism, and uncritical acceptance of the superiority of American values and interests led to needlessly provocative policies that exacerbated international tensions at a crucial juncture in modern world history. . . . [O]ne of the most important books about the early Cold War to appear in the past decade."Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida« less