The Price of Power - 9780226009377

Name: The Price of Power - 9780226009377
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

The Price of PowerAmerica Since 1945\nAuthor(s): Herbert Agar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226009377, 978-0226009377\nSynopsis\nOnce the sword of power has been drawn, it can never again be sheathed. That is the lesson the United States has been learning ever since she emerged from World War II as one of the great world powers. This central issue dominates Herbert Agar's exciting narrative history of the first twelve years of American world responsibility. He reviews the events and crises that have marked postwar historythe Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the Berlin airlift, the Eightieth Congress and Truman's election, the Hiss case, the collapse of Nationalist China, the McCarthy hearings, the atom and hydrogen bombs, McCarthy's \""retirement,\"" and Eisenhower's first election. In the great tradition of journalism and history, Mr. Agar has based his writings on close observation of re.