The Marshall Plan

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501102394

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Winner of the 2018 American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Duff Cooper Prize in Literary Nonfiction “[A] brilliant book…by far the best study yet” (Paul Kennedy, The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan and its long-lasting influence on our world. 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 continue to shape world events. Benn Steil’s “thoroughly researched and well-written account” (USA TODAY) tells the story behind the birth of the Cold War, told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s gripping narrative takes us through the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. In each case, Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe is vividly portrayed. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan. “Trenchant and timely…an ambitious, deeply researched narrative that…provides a fresh perspective on the coming Cold War” (The New York Times Book Review), The Marshall Plan is a polished and masterly work of historical narrative. An instant classic of Cold War literature, it “is a gripping, complex, and critically important story that is told with clarity and precision” (The Christian Science Monitor).

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264044258

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The Marshall Plan Lessons Learned for the 21st Century by OECD Pdf

This book examines the historical, diplomatic, economic, and strategic aspects of the European Recovery Program (ERP) - popularly known as the Marshall Plan.

Author : Michael Holm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317426059

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The Marshall Plan by Michael Holm Pdf

Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented $12.3 billion in U.S. aid to help Western European countries recover from the destruction of the Second World War, and forestall Communist influence in that region. The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe examines the aid program, its ideological origins and explores how ideas about an Americanized world order inspired and influenced the Marshall Plan’s creation and execution. The book provides a much-needed re-examination of the Plan, enabling students to understand its immediate impact and its political, social, and cultural legacy. Including essential primary documents, this concise book will be a key resource for students of America’s role in the world at mid-century.

Author : Bruce D. Jones
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815729549

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The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy by Bruce D. Jones Pdf

How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war. The European Recovery Plan—better known as the Marshall Plan, after chief advocate Secretary of State George C. Marshall—was in part an act of charity but primarily an act of self-interest, intended to prevent postwar Western Europe from succumbing to communism. By speeding the recovery of Europe and establishing the basis for NATO and diplomatic alliances that endure to this day, it became one of the most successful U.S. government programs ever. The Brookings Institution played an important role in the adoption of the Marshall Plan. At the request of Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Brookings scholars analyzed the plan, including the specifics of how it could be implemented. Their report gave Vandenberg the information he needed to shepherd the plan through a Republican-dominated Congress in a presidential election year. In his foreword to this book, Brookings president Strobe Talbott reviews the global context in which the Truman administration pushed the Marshall Plan through Congress, as well as Brookings' role in that process. The book includes Marshall's landmark speech at Harvard University in June 1947 laying out the rationale for the European aid program, the full text of the report from Brookings analyzing the plan, and the lecture Marshall gave upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. The book concludes with an essay by Bruce Jones and Will Moreland that demonstrates how the Marshall Plan helped shape the entire postwar era and how today's leaders can learn from the plan's challenges and successes.

Author : Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0521378400

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The Marshall Plan by Michael J. Hogan Pdf

A re-interpretation of the Marshall Plan, as an extension of strategic American policy, views the plan as the "brainchild" of the New Deal coalition of progressive private and political interests.

Author : Nicolaus Mills
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781620458686

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Winning the Peace by Nicolaus Mills Pdf

Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.

Author : Greg Behrman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743282642

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The Most Noble Adventure by Greg Behrman Pdf

Traces America's four-year diplomatic efforts to help rebuild post-World War II Europe, an endeavor that involved a thirteen-billion-dollar plan and was heavily influenced by political factors.

Author : George Capaccio
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502627315

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The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine by George Capaccio Pdf

The growth of Soviet power prompted concern from the United States. President Truman asserted that the United States needed to prevent Communism from becoming stronger. His warning to Congress became known as the Truman Doctrine. When General George Marshall visited Europe, he feared that Europe's weak economy would encourage the growth of Communism. He established an initiative to provide economic support to rebuild Europe, which had been devastated by the war. This initiative was nicknamed the Marshall Plan. Congress was reluctant at first but ultimately approved the plan when Czechoslovakia became Communist in 1948. This book gives an in-depth discussion of European integration and the influence of Communism on Western Europe.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 134962750X

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The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After by NA NA Pdf

The text focuses first on the impact of the Marshall plan on the organization of political and economic life in post-war Europe and how the plan was perceived in European public opinion. It then examines its role in the construction of European union and in the division of Europe. Finally, the book analyzes the debate about the economic impact of the Marshall Plan in the post-war economic "miracle" in Western Europe. The authors of these chapters are well-known historians, economists, and political scientists, whose original chapters derive from their work on post-war Europe.

Author : John Agnew,J. Nicholas Entrikin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135770297

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The Marshall Plan Today by John Agnew,J. Nicholas Entrikin Pdf

This volume has as its focus the role of the Marshall Plan as both a force in the transformation of European Economic practices and a stimulus to political integration in Europe. This organizing theme is framed in terms of two other issues that are central to contemporary debates in international political economy and geopolitical studies: the origins and development of the Cold War, and the growing globalisation of the world economy. In relating the Marshall Plan to these issues, this book goes beyond the typical diplomatic history approach to place the Plan in the context of both the political economy of late twentieth-century Europe, and the impact of American models of business and government that came with the Plan.

Author : Evan Marshall
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1582970629

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The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing by Evan Marshall Pdf

Imagine writing with the skill of a published author, the knowledge of a seasoned editor and the savvy of a New York literary agent....you'd have all the know-how it takes to transform your story idea into a novel worthy of praise and publication. In this unique guide, agent, editor and novelist Evan Marshall does give you everything it takes to write your novel. Drawing on his extensive experience, Marshall has perfected a simple and methodical approach to novel writing. His clear-cut, 16-step "Marshall Plan" breaks down the complex novel-writing process into a series of parts you put together one piece at a time. You'll have your whole story planned and plotted before you actually begin writing, so there's no chance of working yourself in a corner or making critical mistakes in pacing and plot. In short, The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing works. Use it, and watch your story masterfully develop into a completed manuscript ready to get the full attention of readers, agents and editors alike.

Author : Charles L. Mee
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106008842129

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The Marshall Plan by Charles L. Mee Pdf

The launching of the Pax Americana.

Author : Robert Everett Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520058682

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From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis by Robert Everett Wood Pdf

Author : Hadley Arkes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400867042

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Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest by Hadley Arkes Pdf

The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration? Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a national interest in foreign policy is defined and implemented. The author's analysis of the efforts to design the Economic Cooperation Agency demonstrates how the definition of the national interest is fundamentally linked to the character of the political regime. His account of the discussions in the executive branch of the government, the bureaucratic infighting, and the deliberations in Congressional hearings and floor debates also shows how, in the process of making decisions on administration and procedure, the bureaucracy itself affected the aims of the Plan. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : John Gimbel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783772645

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The Origins of the Marshall Plan by John Gimbel Pdf