The Truman Presidency

ISBN: 9780521407731 出版年：1989 页码：470 Michael James Lacey Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgments Introduction and summary: the Truman era in retrospect Michael J. Lacey 1. The mind and character of Harry S. Truman Alonzo L. Hamby Part I. Domestic Politics and Issues: 2. Forging America's postwar order: domestic politics and political economy in the age of Truman Robert Griffith 3. Attitudes toward industry in the Truman administration: the macroeconomic origins of microeconomic policy Craufurd D. Goodwin 4. Labor in the Truman era: origins of the 'private welfare state' Nelson Lichtenstein 5. Postwar American society: dissent and social reform William H. Chafe 6. 'Some sort of peace': President Truman, the American people, and the atomic bomb Paul Boyer Part II. Foreign Policy and National Defense: 7. The national security state reconsidered: Truman and economic containment, 1945-1950 Robert A. Pollard 8. The insecurities of victory: the United States and the perception of the Soviet threat after World War II John Lewis Gaddis 9. Alliance and autonomy: European identity and US foreign policy objectives in the Truman years Charles S. Maier 10. US policy in the Near East: the triumphs and tribulations of the Truman administration Bruce R. Kuniholm 11. Toward a post-colonial order: Truman administration policies toward South and Southeast Asia Robert J. McMahon 12. Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia John W. Dower 13. The Truman administration and the Korean War Barton J. Bernstein About the authors Index.