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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Marshall Plan
    sub title: dawn of the Cold War
  name:
    name part: Steil, Benn
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan, told with verve, insight and resonance for today. In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, U.S. 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's thrilling account 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. In each case, 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. This book provides critical context into understanding today's international landscape. 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 and the birth of the Cold War. A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, this is an instant classic of Cold War literature.
  table of 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.
  note: Benn Steil.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Marshall Plan.
  subject:
    topic: Reconstruction (1939-1951)
  subject:
    topic: Economic assistance, American
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Foreign economic relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign economic relations
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: International Relations
    topic: Diplomacy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Economic Policy
  classification: HC240 .S6755 2018
  classification: 338.91/730409044
  identifier: 9781501102370
  identifier: 1501102370
  identifier: 9781501102394
  identifier: 2017301149
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180131
    record change date: 20190122151213.0
    record identifier: in00004036906