The General vs. the President
MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. At a time when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way.The contest of wills between these two titanic characters unfolds…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-91217-1
- EAN: 9781101912171
- Produktnummer: 22540392
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 608 g
- Gewicht: 608
Über den Autor
H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.
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