The Price of Free World Victory
Title | The Price of Free World Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Agard Wallace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Liberty |
ISBN |
Vital Speeches of the Day
Title | Vital Speeches of the Day PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 782 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | Speeches, addresses, etc |
ISBN |
The World That Wasn't
Title | The World That Wasn't PDF eBook |
Author | Benn Steil |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 2024-01-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982127821 |
From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War. Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR’s death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace’s defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Filmmaker Oliver Stone, among others, has claimed that Wallace’s loss ushered in four decades of devastating and unnecessary Cold War. Now, based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil’s The World That Wasn’t paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Though a brilliant geneticist, Henry Wallace was a self-obsessed political figure, blind to the manipulations of aides—many of whom were Soviet agents and assets. From 1933 to 1949, Wallace undertook a series of remarkable interventions abroad, each aimed at remaking the world order according to his evolving spiritual blueprint. As agriculture secretary, he fell under the spell of Russian mystics, and used the cover of a plant-gathering mission to aid their doomed effort to forge a new theocratic state in Central Asia. As vice president, he toured a Potemkin Siberian continent, guided by undercover Soviet security and intelligence officials who hid labor camps and concealed prisoners. He then wrote a book, together with an American NKGB journalist source, hailing the region’s renaissance under Bolshevik leadership. In China, the Soviets uncovered his private efforts to coax concessions to Moscow from Chiang Kai-shek, fueling their ambitions to dominate Manchuria. Running for president in 1948, he colluded with Stalin to undermine his government’s foreign policy, allowing the dictator to edit his most important election speech. It was not until 1950 that he began to acknowledge his misapprehensions regarding the Kremlin’s aims and conduct. Meticulously researched and deftly written, The World That Wasn’t is a spellbinding work of political biography and narrative history that will upend how we see the making of the early Cold War.
The Price of Free World Victory
Title | The Price of Free World Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Henry A. Wallace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Select List of Sound Recordings
Title | Select List of Sound Recordings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Archives and Records Service. Audiovisual Branch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
The War Against Japan, 1941-1945
Title | The War Against Japan, 1941-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Sbrega |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1078 |
Release | 2015-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317431790 |
With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.
United States Government Publications Monthly Catalog
Title | United States Government Publications Monthly Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1814 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |