Michael D Pearlman

Truman & MacArthur

Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Michael D. Pearlman retired in 2006 as a professor of history at the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. He is author of Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present and To Make Democracy Safe for America: Patricians and Preparedness in the Progressive Era. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780253350664
• ISBN-10: 0253350662
• Artikelnr.: 23364747

Autorenporträt

Michael D. Pearlman

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. Truman and MacArthur, before Korea
2. Defense Policy on the Eve of the Korean War
3. The War against North Korea: From Commitment to the Pusan Perimeter
4. The War against North Korea: From Inchon to the Yalu River
5. The War against China: Winter 1950 to Spring 1951
6. Truman Fires MacArthur
7. Public Verdict and Consequences: Military and Political, Home and Abroad
8. Ending the War without Truman or MacArthur
9. Truman and MacArthur: Summary, Conclusion, and Postscript
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index