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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Steil, Benn.     Subjects     Marshall Plan.     Reconstruction (1939-1951).     Economic assistance, American.     Europe -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.     United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Steil, Benn.       by title:      The Marshall Plan : ...       by call number:      338.9173 S818m     Search the Web     Steil, Benn.     Marshall Plan.     Reconstruction (1939-1951).     Economic assistance, American.     Europe -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.     United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe.       MARC Display

The Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War / Benn Steil. by Steil, Benn. Simon & Schuster, 2018. Call #: 338.9173 S818m Subjects Marshall Plan.   Reconstruction (1939-1951).   Economic assistance, American.   Europe -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.   United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe. ISBN:  9781501102370 (hc.) Description:  xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-577) and index. Contents:  Prologue -- Crisis -- Rupture -- Plan -- Trap -- Unity -- Persuasion -- Sausage -- Subversion -- Passage -- Showdown -- Division -- Success? -- Echoes -- Appendix A. Truman doctrine speech -- Appendix B. Marshall's Harvard speech -- Appendix C. Data -- Appendix D. Maps. Summary:  "In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events. Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil brings to life the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations - the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. We see and understand like never before Stalin's determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe. Given current echoes of the Cold War, as Putin's Russia rattles the world order, the tenuous balance of power and uncertain order of the late 1940s is as relevant as ever. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil's account changes how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 338.9173 S818m Adult books Checked out Jul 23, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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