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037    |bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ,
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100 1  Steil, Benn,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Marshall Plan :|bdawn of the Cold War /|cBenn Steil. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bSimon & Schuster,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "February 2018"--Title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-577) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to
       reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist 
       authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the 
       collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the 
       beginning of the Cold War. 
520    "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."--Jacket. 
610 20 Marshall Plan. 
610 27 Marshall Plan.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00606082 
648  7 1939-1951|2fast 
650  0 Reconstruction (1939-1951) 
650  0 Economic assistance, American. 
650 04 Reconstruction (1939-1951.). 
650  7 HISTORY|zUnited States|x20th Century.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xInternational Relations|xDiplomacy.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xPublic Policy|xEconomic Policy.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 Economic assistance, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901618 
650  7 International economic relations.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00976891 
650  7 Reconstruction (1939-1951)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01091544 
650  7 American foreign aid.|2sears 
651  0 Europe|xForeign economic relations|zUnited States. 
651  0 United States|xForeign economic relations|zEurope. 
651  1 United States|xForeign economic relations|zEurope. 
651  7 Europe.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01245064 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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