A Companion to Harry S. Truman

With contributions from the most accomplished scholars in thefield, this fascinating companion to one of America's pivotalpresidents assesses Harry S. Truman as a historical figure,politician, president and strategist.* Assembles many of the top historians in their fields who assesscritical aspects of the Truman presidency* Provides new approaches to the historiography of Truman and hispolicies* Features a variety of historiographic methodologies

List of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Daniel S. MargoliesPart I Considering Truman in Historical Perspective 71 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory 9Sean J. Savage2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership 26Steven CaseyPart II Enduring Questions 473 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration 49Jeremi Suri4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb67Sean L. Malloy5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective87Amanda Kay McVetyPart III Truman, the State, and the World System 1096 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governanceand the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration111Francine McKenzie7 NSC-68 and the National Security State 131Curt Cardwell8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman's Foreign PolicyAdvisers 159Benjamin A. CoatesPart IV The Truman Presidency and the Shaping of PostwarAmerican Society 1899 Truman, Reconversion, and the Emergence of the Post-World WarII Consumer Society 191Susannah Walker10 The Fair Deal 210Jason Scott Smith11 The Election of 1948 222Dean J. Kotlowski12 The Truman Administration and the Public Policy of CivilianDefense: Making the Best of a Nightmare 246Andrew D. Grossman13 The Environmental History of the Truman Years, 1945-53260Mark Harvey14 Truman and Civil Rights 287Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. FordPart V Truman's Foreign Policy 30315 Great Britain and American Hegemony 305Kathleen Britt Rasmussen16 The Truman Doctrine 327Elizabeth Edwards Spalding17 Harry S. Truman and the Marshall Plan 347Robert H. Landrum18 Truman and the Middle East 362Kelly J. Shannon19 Harry S. Truman's Latin American Policy 389Michael Donoghue20 Truman and NATO 410Stephanie Trombley Averill21 Truman, the United Nations, and the Origins of the PostwarWorld Order 428Robert McGreevey22 The Truman Administration and Cold War Neutrals 436T. Michael Ruddy23 The Legacies of Nuremberg in International Law and AmericanPolicy 453Jinee LokaneetaPart VI America and the Postwar Pacific Rim 46324 The Occupation of Japan: A History of Its Histories 465Hiroshi Kitamura25 The Birth of a Rivalry: Sino-American Relations During theTruman Administration 484Gregg Brazinsky26 Conflicts in Korea 498James I. Matray27 Setting the Pattern: The Truman Administration and SoutheastAsia 532Mark Atwood LawrenceReferences 553Further Reading 598Index 605