Jonathan M. Soffer

General Matthew B. Ridgway

From Progressivism to Reaganism, 1895-1993

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Produktbeschreibung

Detailing the life and legacy of one of America's highest profile military commanders, this biography looks at how Ridgway maintained his corporatist ideals through the critical days of World War II and the Cold War. The qualities that Ridgway honed on the battlefields of Europe and Korea were the same that he would draw upon in more politicized jobs as NATO commander and US Army Chief of Staff, and in retirement as the leading military critic of American intervention in Vietnam. The global scope of Ridgway's involvement, in wartime and peacetime, from Europe to Latin American to the Far East, provides a unique opportunity to examine the policy and ideological issues of the day. Early chapters chronicle Ridgway's younger life and early postings from West Point to China to Sandino's Nicaragua, and his participation in various campaigns during World War II, from Sicily to Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge and on into Germany. Later chapters cover his work as a military diplomat under President Truman, including his work on arms control and the Inter-American Cooperation Act. Soffer then examines Ridgway's key role in the Korean War and his ability as a theater commander, and then considers his actions under President Eisenhower and beyond, as well as Ridgway's active support for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. This work will prove valuable to students of military history and the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780275950743
• ISBN-10: 0275950743
• Artikelnr.: 25568614

Autorenporträt

JONATHAN M. SOFFER is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. /e

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Introduction Early Life Military Diplomacy and Hemisphere
Defense on the Eve of World War II Training the All-American The Lessons of
Sicily Narrating the 82nd from Northern Ireland to Normandy From the Battle
of the Bulge to VE The Perils of Peace: Matthew Bunker Ridgway and the
Postwar Order, 1946-1947 Ridgway and the Latin American Military: The
Truman Years The Korean War Problems of Supreme Command The Far East and
Europe: Ridgway as a Theater Commander Chief of Staff: Ridgway and the New
Look, 1953-1956 1945--McCarthy and Dienbienphu Ridgway in "Retirement"
Bibliography Index