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Einband leicht abgenutzt, insgesamt etwas vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding slightly worn, overall somewhat yellowed, otherwise in good condition. - From the first days o( his unexpected presidency in April 1945 through the landmark NSC 68 of 1950, Harry Truman was central to the formation of America's grand strategy during the Cold War and the subsequent remaking of U.S. foreign policy. Others are frequently associated with the terminology of and responses to the perceived global Communist threat after the Second World War: Walter Lippmann popularized the term "cold war," and George F. Kennan first used the word "containment" in a strategic sense. Although Kennan, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall have been seen as the most influential architects of American Cold War foreign policy, The Fir.'! CoQ Warrior draws on archives and other primary sources lo demonstrate that Harry Truman was the key decision maker in the critical period between 1945 and 1950. In a significant reassessment of the thirty-third president and his political beliefs, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding contends that it was Truman himself who defined and articulated the theoretical underpinnings of containment. I hs practical leadership style was characterized by policies and institutions such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Berlin airliii, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Council. Part of Truman's unique approach�shaped by his religious laith [.] ISBN 9780813123929