A cross of iron
Harry S. Truman and the origins of the national security state, 1945-1954
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Publication
1998 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, England
Language
English
Word Count
131,250 words, Guess
Page Count
525 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL356049M
- ISBN-10052164044X
- OCLC Control Number38580269
- OCLC Control Number504387891
- OCLC Control Number212806576
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- Library of Congress Control Number98015865
- Goodreads3007310
- LibraryThing163181
Classifications
- DDC327.73
- LCCE813 .H58 1998
Description
In A Cross of Iron, one of the country's most distinguished diplomatic historians addresses the domestic underside of America's expanding global role in the first decade of the Cold War. The result is the fullest account yet of one of the most important developments in recent American history - the emergence of a national security state where none had existed before. Drawing on prodigious research in archival and manuscript materials, Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state making as it unfolded in efforts to unify the armed forces, organize the Defense Department, harness science to military purposes, mobilize military manpower, and distribute the cost of defense across the economy. In tracing these efforts, not to mention the great debates over defense spending and the scope of the country's commitments around the world, Hogan's challenging narrative brings into sharp focus the dramatic postwar transformation of the American state.
First Sentence
"How can we prepare for total war," Hanson Baldwin asked in 1947, "without becoming a 'garrison state' and destroying the very qualities and virtues and principles we originally set out to save?"
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