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The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped
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The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

de Greg Behrman

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Free Press, August 2007. Hardcover . Good/Good. Good+ Hardcover with Good+ Dustjacket. Light to moderate soiling and shelfwear to DJ, including a few small tears. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Textblock has some soiling. Spine ends bumped with a couple of tiny tears. A few pages soiled. Otherwise, pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

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In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that was at once strategic, altruistic and stunningly effective, and of a time when America stood as a beacon of generosity and moral leadership. When World War II ended in Europe, the continent lay in tatters. Tens of millions of people had been killed. Ancient cities had been demolished. The economic, financial and commercial foundations of Europe were in shambles. Western Europe's Communist parties -- feeding off people's want and despair -- were flourishing as, to the east, Stalin's Soviet Union emerged as the sole superpower on the continent. The Marshall Plan was a four-year, $13 billion (more than $100 billion in today's dollars) plan to provide assistance for Europe's economic recovery. More than an aid program, it sought to modernize Western Europe's economies and launch them on a path to prosperity and integration; to restore Western Europe's faith in democracy and capitalism; to enmesh the region firmly in a Western economic association and eventually a military alliance. It was the linchpin of America's strategy to meet the Soviet threat. It helped to trigger the Cold War and, eventually, to win it. Through detailed and exhaustive research, Behrman brings this vital and dramatic epoch to life and animates the personalities that shaped it. The narrative follows the six extraordinary American statesmen -- George Marshall, Will Clayton, Arthur Vandenberg, Richard Bissell, Paul Hoffman and W. Averell Harriman -- who devised and implemented the Plan, as well as some of the century's most important personalities -- Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Joseph McCarthy -- who are also central players in the drama told here. More than a humanitarian endeavor, the Marshall Plan was one of the most effective foreign policies in all of American history, in large part because, as Behrman writes, it was born and executed in a time when American "foreign policy was defined by its national interests and the very best of ideals."

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Inventario del vendedor #
223493
Título
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
Autor
Greg Behrman
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Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Bien
Estado de la sobrecubierta
Good
Cantidad disponible
1
ISBN 10
0743282639
ISBN 13
9780743282635
Editorial
Free Press
Lugar de publicación
New York
Fecha de publicación
August 2007
Páginas
464
LCCN
2007006984

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