Keith D McFarland, David L Roll

Louis Johnson and the Arming of America

The Roosevelt and Truman Years

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 866g
• ISBN-13: 9780253346261
• ISBN-10: 0253346266
• Artikelnr.: 21327804

Autorenporträt

Keith D. McFarland is President of Texas A&M University-Commerce and author of Harry H. Woodring: A Political Biography of FDR's Controversial Secretary of War and The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography. He lives in Commerce, Texas. David L. Roll is a partner in the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP whose practice focuses on antitrust and administrative law. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bedford Blood
2. Foot in the Door
3. Like Feuding Schoolboys
4. "Basic Shift in Mobilization Planning"
5. Understanding FDR
6. Surviving FDR
7. "But You Promised Me"
8. Personal Representative of the President
9. Long Shot Pays Off
10. Inside the Pentagon
11. Revolt of the Admirals
12. "Like a Meatchopper on Roundsteak"
13. "My God, the Russians Have the Bomb"
14. Entangling Alliance
15. "Till the Dust Settles"
16. Last Week in June
17. "Give Me Two American Divisions and I Can Hold Korea"
18. Means of Descent
19. "Lou, I've Got to Ask You to Quit"
20. "Lest Darkness Come"
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index