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Louis Johnson and the Arming of America
2005
Overview
Without question this is an important new addition to World War II
and Cold War historiography... Highly recommended. -- Douglas Brinkley,
author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy
Carter's Journey beyond the White House A remarkably
objective, yet sympathetic, study of Louis Johnson's life and career. Now only
half-remembered,... Johnson was a major national figure. Colorful, aggressive,
independent-minded, egotistical, his strong views and conflicts with Dean Acheson
proved to be his undoing. All in all, a fascinating tale. -- James R.
Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense McFarland and Roll
have performed a real service in rescuing from obscurity this Democratic mover and
shaker. Their account of the rise and fall of Louis Johnson provides us with the
fullest depiction yet of an important Washington figure employed for better or worse
as a blunt instrument of policy change by both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry
Truman. -- Alonzo L. Hamby, author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S.
Truman and For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of
the 1930s [Johnson's] career is a cautionary tale of how
even the most ruthlessly effective men can become pawns in the Washington power
game. McFarland and Roll bring Johnson to life in this thorough and well-told
history. -- Evan Thomas, Newsweek, author of Robert Kennedy: His Life and The
Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA Louis Johnson was FDR's
Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of the industrial mobilization plans
that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II. Later, as
Truman's Secretary of Defense, Johnson was given the difficult job of unifying the
armed forces and carrying out Truman's orders to dramatically reduce defense
expenditures. In both administrations, he was asked to confront and carry out
extremely unpopular initiatives -- massive undertakings that each president believed
were vital to the nation's security and economic welfare. Johnson's conflicts with
Henry Morganthau, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, Winston Churchill, Harry
Hopkins, Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Paul Nitze find contemporary parallels
in the recent disagreements between the national defense establishment and the State
Department.
