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Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960
The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedom were endowed by God, that God had called the United States to defend liberty, and that Soviet communism was evil because of its atheism and enmity to religion. Along with security and economic concerns, these religious convictions helped determine both how the United States defined the enemy and how it fought the conflict. Meanwhile, American Protestant churches failed to seize the moment. Internal differences over theology and politics, and resistance to cooperation with Catholics and Jews, hindered Protestant leaders domestically and internationally. Frustrated by these internecine disputes, Truman and Eisenhower attempted to construct a new civil religion to mobilize domestic support for Cold War measures, determine the strategic boundaries of containment, unite all religious faiths against communism, and to undermine the authority of communist governments abroad.
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The Most Controversial Decision
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision-making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addresses a subject that has been much debated among historians and it confronts head-on the highly disputed claim that the Truman administration practised 'atomic diplomacy'. The book goes beyond its central historical analysis to ask whether it was morally right for the United States to use these terrible weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also provides a balanced evaluation of the relationship between atomic weapons and the origins of the Cold War.
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Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world
\"From Franklin Roosevelt's final days through Harry Truman's extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in U.S. history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic bosses and reluctantly picked Senator Truman as his vice president, a man he barely knew. Upon FDR's death in April 1945, Truman, after only eighty-two days as VP, was thrust into the presidency. Utterly unprepared, he faced the collapse of Germany, a Europe in ruins, the organization of the UN, a summit with Stalin and Churchill, and the question of whether atomic bombs would be ready for use against Japan. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was growing increasingly hostile toward U.S. power. Truman inherited FDR's hope that peace could be maintained through cooperation with the Soviets, but he would soon learn that imitating his predecessor would lead only to missteps and controversy. Spanning the years of transition, 1944 to 1948, Ascent to Power illuminates Truman's struggles to emerge as president in his own right. Yet from a relatively unknown Missouri senator to the most powerful man on Earth, Truman's legacy transcends. With his come-from-behind campaign in the fall of 1948, his courageous civil rights advocacy, and his role in liberating millions from militarist governments and brutal occupations, Truman's decisions during these pivotal years changed the course of the world in ways so significant we live with them today\"-- Dust jacket flap.
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Truman and the Bomb
Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman's
decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In
destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will
discomfort both Truman's critics and his supporters, and force
historians to reexamine what they think they know about
the end of the Pacific War. Myth : Truman didn't
know of the atomic bomb's development before he became president.
Fact : Truman's knowledge of the bomb is revealed
in his own carefully worded letters to a Senate colleague and
specifically discussed in the correspondence between the army
officers assigned to his Senate investigating committee.
Myth : The huge casualty estimates cited by Truman
and Secretary of War Henry Stimson were a postwar creation devised
to hide their guilt for killing thousands of defenseless civilians.
Fact : The flagrantly misrepresented \"low\" numbers
are based on narrow slices of highly qualified-and limited-U.S.
Army projections printed in a variety of briefing documents and are
not from the actual invasion planning against Japan.
Myth : Truman wanted to defeat Japan without any
assistance from the Soviet Union and to freeze the USSR out of the
postwar settlements. Fact : President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and President Truman desperately wanted Stalin's
involvement in the bloody endgame of World War II and worked
diligently-and successfully-toward that end. Using previously
unpublished material, D. M. Giangreco busts these myths and more.
An award-winning historian and expert on Truman, Giangreco is
perfectly situated to debunk the many deep-rooted falsehoods about
the roles played by American, Soviet, and Japanese leaders during
the end of the World War II in the Pacific. Truman and the
Bomb , a concise yet comprehensive study of Truman's decision
to use the atomic bomb, will prove to be a classic for studying
presidential politics and influence on atomic warfare and its
military and diplomatic components. Making this book particularly
valuable for professors and students as well as for military,
diplomatic, and presidential historians and history buffs are
extensive primary source materials, including the planned U.S.
naval and air operations in support of the Soviet invasion of
Manchuria. These documents support Giangreco's arguments while
enabling the reader to enter the mindsets of Truman and his
administration as well as the war's key Allied participants.
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Choosing Truman : the democratic convention of 1944
As Franklin D. Roosevelt's health deteriorated in the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention of 1944, Democratic leaders confronted a dire situation. Given the inevitability of the president's death during a fourth term, the choice of a running mate for FDR was of profound importance. The Democrats needed a man they could trust. They needed Harry S. Truman. Robert Ferrell tells an engrossing tale of ruthless ambition, secret meetings, and party politics. Roosevelt emerges as a manipulative leader whose desire to retain power led to a blatant disregard for the loyalty of his subordinates and the aspirations of his vice presidential hopefuls. Startling in its conclusions, impeccable in its research, Choosing Truman is an engrossing, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the nation's thirty-third president.
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