Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization
(2020)
By:
Scarborough, Joe
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/TRUMAN,H
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062950499, 0062950495, 9780062950499
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A strange little man -- Shockers -- Greek fire -- Diplomatic developments -- Met at Armageddon -- The man from Missouri -- Gnawing away -- Steer clear of the foreign world -- Passing the torch -- From building roads to bombing cities -- Crafting the doctrine -- The president proposes -- Vandenberg and the Senate -- A House divided -- Personnel is policy -- The doctrine in action -- Eleven minutes -- Cold War dawn -- Victory in Greece -- Aftermath
"The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War"--