Harry Truman's China Policy
Title | Harry Truman's China Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis McCarroll Purifoy |
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Pages | 344 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Asserts that the anti-Communist hysteria known as McCarthyism led President Truman to wage an aggressive military-ideological crusade against Communist China.
Truman's Two-China Policy
Title | Truman's Two-China Policy PDF eBook |
Author | June M. Grasso |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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This exploration of the international environment examines not only traditional political-military concerns but also economic, ethnic, and environmental issues and the role of crime, terrorism, the drug trade, and migration in the security environment of Russia and its neighbours to the south.
President Truman's Statement on U.S. Policy Toward China
Title | President Truman's Statement on U.S. Policy Toward China PDF eBook |
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The Pearl Harbor Working Group presents the text of a statement by U.S. President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) concerning the American foreign policy toward China. The statement was published in the December 15, 1945 issue of the "New York Times."
The Trials of Harry S. Truman
Title | The Trials of Harry S. Truman PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Frank |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2023-03-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501102907 |
Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic bomb and the development of far deadlier weapons; the start of the Cold War and the creation of the NATO alliance; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight a costly “limited war” in Korea. Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of Harry S. Truman is complex and surprising. He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one’s fellow citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. While he was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans and came to support stronger civil rights laws, he never relinquished the deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his Midwestern rationality, he could act out of instinct and combativeness, as when he asserted a president’s untested power to seize the nation’s steel mills. The Truman who emerges in these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure, quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries, and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and Korea, have contributed to an indelible and “intimate” (The Washington Post) portrait of a man, born in the 19th century, who set the nation on a course that reverberates in the 21st century, a leader who never lost a schoolboy’s love for his country and its Constitution.
A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam
Title | A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Mann |
Publisher | Basic Books (AZ) |
Pages | 858 |
Release | 2001-01-03 |
Genre | History |
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America's Descent into Vietnam, Given by Dr. JamesE. Archer.
General MacArthur and President Truman
Title | General MacArthur and President Truman PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Rovere |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2022-02-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000677028 |
This book was first published in 1951 as The General and the President after President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War -a memorably explosive incident in American political history. But its significance extends far beyond a dramatic episode in the nation's past. This literate and ironic work continues to be an invaluable guide to the conflict between civilian and military authority, and it illuminates later and currentcontroversies over the role the United States should play in Asian affairs. This new edition is graced by a remarkable introductory essay by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The text is reprinted from the 1965 republication under the title The MacArthur Controversy, that is, the book as originally written with a few tenses altered and a few topical allusions deleted. General MacArthur and President Truman will be of special interest to students of American diplomacy, politics, and culture and to all concerned with the relationship between the armed forces and larger society.
Taiwan Straits Standoff
Title | Taiwan Straits Standoff PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce A. Elleman |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1839980923 |
Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. This small body of water—often compared to the English Channel—separates the PRC and Taiwan, and has been the location for periodic military tensions, some threatening to end in war. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.