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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2018Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501102370
  • 1501102370
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.91/730409045 23
LOC classification:
  • HC240 .S6755 2018
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.
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Book Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Independence Public Library Adult Books 338.91 STEIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36123001610706

"February 2018"--Title page verso.

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

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.

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.

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