A cross of iron : Harry S. Truman and the origins of the national security state, 1945-1954 / Michae...
A cross of iron : Harry S. Truman and the origins of the national security state, 1945-1954 / Michae...
A cross of iron : Harry S. Truman and the origins of the national security state, 1945-1954 / Michael J. Hogan.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N327.73/511
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English
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xii, 525 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The National Security Discourse: Ideology, Political Culture, and State Making -- 2. Magna Charta: The National Security Act and the Specter of the Garrison State -- 3. The High Price of Peace: Guns-and-Butter Politics in the Early Cold War -- 4. The Time Tax: American Political Culture and the U...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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England
Date Published
1998.
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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...
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-505) and index.
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N327.73/511
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052164044X (hardback)
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327.73
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991002088989702626
