Truman and Korea : the political culture of the early cold war /

Truman and Korea : the political culture of the early cold war /

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Author / Creator:Pierpaoli, Paul G., Jr., 1962-
Imprint:Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 261 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Truman, Harry S., -- 1884-1972.
Truman, Harry S., -- 1884-1972.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- United States.
Politics and government
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130363
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ISBN:0826261310
9780826261311
0826212069
9780826212061
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Detailing for the first time the story of America's homefront during the Korean War, Truman and Korea fills an important gap in the historical scholarship of the era. Paul Pierpaoli analyzes the political, economic, social, and international ramifications of America's first war of Soviet containment, never losing sight of the larger context of the Cold War. He focuses on how and why the Truman administration undertook a bloody, inconclusive war on the Korean peninsula while permanently placing the nation on a war footing." "Based upon extensive research in the papers and official presidential files of Harry S. Truman, as well as many manuscript collections and records of wartime and government agencies, Truman and Korea offers a new perspective on the Korean War era and its inextricable ties to broader Cold War decision making."--Jacket
Other form:Print version: Pierpaoli, Paul G., 1962- Truman and Korea. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 1999 0826212069
Table of Contents:
  • Content
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • The Trojan Horse of National Security
  • I NSC-68 and the Outbreak of the Korean War Toward a Piecemeal Mobilization, April-November 1950
  • II "An EntirelyNew War" The Chinese Intervention and the Institutionalization of Rearmament, December-January 1951
  • III Labor's Cold Shoulder The Price and Wage Freeze and a Crisis-Filled Spring, February-May 1951
  • IV The Politics of Rearmament Guns or Butter or Guns and Butter? June-December 1951.
  • V Crises of Con dence The Steel Crisis, Congressional Intransigence, and the Evolution of National Security, January-June 1952
  • VI Toward a Tenuous Normalcy Decontrol and the General's Arrival, July 1952-February 1953
  • Toward an American Sparta? Legacies of the Korean Era
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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