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A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954

Michael J. Hogan

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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, 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.This transformation did not go uncontested. On the contrary, state making took place in a highly charged political environment that pitted civilian against military authorities, Congress against the executive branch, Republicans against Democrats. At issue, Hogan argues, were basic questions about the nation's postwar purpose and political identity. On one side were those who articulated a new ideology of national security, which envisioned the United States as a great military power and champion of democracy worldwide. On the other were those who defended the antistatist, antimilitarist, and isolationist values on an older political culture, and who worried that current policies would transform the country into a garrison state. According to Hogan, President Truman and his successor held the middle ground between these two groups. They tried to reconcile older ways of thinking with the new ideology and the country's democratic traditions with its global obligations, and their efforts to do so determined the size and shape of the national security state that finally emerged.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954. To get started finding A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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, 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.This transformation did not go uncontested. On the contrary, state making took place in a highly charged political environment that pitted civilian against military authorities, Congress against the executive branch, Republicans against Democrats. At issue, Hogan argues, were basic questions about the nation's postwar purpose and political identity. On one side were those who articulated a new ideology of national security, which envisioned the United States as a great military power and champion of democracy worldwide. On the other were those who defended the antistatist, antimilitarist, and isolationist values on an older political culture, and who worried that current policies would transform the country into a garrison state. According to Hogan, President Truman and his successor held the middle ground between these two groups. They tried to reconcile older ways of thinking with the new ideology and the country's democratic traditions with its global obligations, and their efforts to do so determined the size and shape of the national security state that finally emerged.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954. To get started finding A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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