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

"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 So...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pierpaoli, Paul G., Jr., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.