William Inboden

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960

The Soul of Containment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the religious dimensions of American leadership's fight against communism during the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780521156301
• ISBN-10: 0521156300
• Artikelnr.: 30365029

Autorenporträt

William Inboden is currently the Senior Vice President of the Legatum Institute. He previously served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House. He has also worked at the State Department as a member of the policy planning staff and in the Office of International Religious Freedom, and at the American Enterprise Institute as a Civitas Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. Hopes deferred: Protestants and foreign policy, 1945-1952
2. Unity dissolved: Protestants and foreign policy, 1953-1960
Part II: 3. The 'real' Truman Doctrine: Harry Truman's theology of containment
4. To save China: Protestant missionaries and Sino-American relations
5. Guided by God: the unusual decision-making of Senator H. Alexander Smith
6. Chosen by God: John Foster Dulles and America
7. Prophet, priest, and president: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the New American Faith
Afterword.