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| Title |
The Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War / Benn Steil |
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| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition |
| Phys Descr |
xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
BPL: Given in memory of Professor Melvin Gershman. |
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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 |
| Subject |
Marshall Plan
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Reconstruction (1939-1951)
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Economic assistance, American
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Europe -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe
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| OCLC # |
1021054820 |
| ISBN # |
9781501102370 |
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1501102370 |
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