A COMPANION TO HARRY S. TRUMAN -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Considering Truman in Historical Perspective -- 1 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership -- The Contemporary View -- The Revival of Plain-Speaking, Give'em Hell Harry -- Profiles in Courage -- The Defects of his Qualities -- How Truthful, Courageous, and Pre-modern? -- The Truman Doctrine but the Marshall Plan -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Part II Enduring Questions -- 3 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration -- The Atomic Bomb -- The Wisconsin School -- "Postrevisionism" -- National Security -- New Research -- REFERENCES -- 4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective -- Orthodoxy, Revisionism, and Postrevisionism -- Postwar -- The Cold War in Context -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Part III Truman, the State, and the World System -- 6 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governance and the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration -- The End of World War II -- Planning the Postwar World: Reconstruction and Deconstruction -- The Marshall Plan, European Integration, and the Cold War -- The Superpowers and the Cold War -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 7 NSC-68 and the National Security State -- The Origins of the National Security State -- Studies in National Security -- The National Security Thesis -- NSC-68 -- Where to Go from Here? -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman's Foreign Policy Advisers -- James F. Byrnes -- George F. Kennan -- George C. Marshall -- Dean G. Acheson -- Clark M. Clifford.

Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Part IV The Truman Presidency and the Shaping of Postwar American Society -- 9 Truman, Reconversion, and the Emergence of the Post-World War II Consumer Society -- The Challenges of Reconversion -- The New Deal Order and Consumerism in a Conservative Age -- Price Controls -- The G.I. Bill -- Labor -- Future Research and Bringing a Global Perspective to the Story -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 10 The Fair Deal -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 11 The Election of 1948 -- The Road to the Nomination -- The Fall Campaign -- The Election in Retrospect -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 12 The Truman Administration and the Public Policy of Civilian Defense: Making the Best of a Nightmare -- 1946-48: The Rationale for Civilian Defense in the Atomic Age -- The Civil Defense Studies: Moving Towards an FCDA -- The Federal Civil Defense Administration -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 13 The Environmental History of the Truman Years, 1945-53 -- Suburbs, Consumers, and Nature -- Automobiles, Consumers, and Nature -- Recreation and Pollution -- Growing Concern for Public Health -- The Environmental Alarm Bells of the Bomb -- The Hazards of DDT, DES, and Household Chemicals -- The Public Lands and Waterways of the West -- The Great Showdown over Echo Park -- Aldo Leopold: Environmental Seer, Sage, and Prophet -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 14 Truman and Civil Rights -- Debating the Making of Truman -- Truman's Early Political Career -- Breakthroughs and Detours during Truman's First Term -- A Crucial Year: 1948 -- Truman's Second Term -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Part V Truman's Foreign Policy -- 15 Great Britain and American Hegemony -- The Early Years of the Cold War -- The Middle East -- The Global Economy -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING.

16 The Truman Doctrine -- Between West and East -- Truman's Worldview -- 1946: The Near East -- 1947: The Near East and Beyond -- A New Grand Strategy -- Contemporary and Scholarly Responses -- Truman's Legacy -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 17 Harry S. Truman and the Marshall Plan -- The Genesis of the Marshall Plan, July 1945-September 1947 -- The Marshall Plan in Congress, September 1947-April 1948 -- The Marshall Plan in Practice, April 1948-December 1951 -- The Marshall Plan in Retrospect, December 1951-Present -- The Marshall Plan and the Opening of Soviet Archives -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 18 Truman and the Middle East -- U.S.-Middle Eastern Relations Before Truman -- The Man from Missouri and the Middle East -- The Iranian Crisis, 1945-6 -- Turkey and the Truman Doctrine, 1947 -- Israel, 1948 -- Consequences of Truman's Policies and Avenues for Future Study -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 19 Harry S. Truman's Latin American Policy -- Truman and the Legacy of the Good Neighbor -- Argentine Exceptionalism in the Truman Years -- Postwar Conjuncture in Latin American Politics -- Plain Speaking in the White House -- Early Crisis for the OAS -- Dictators Welcome -- Army for Progress? -- Commies Go Home -- The Founding Father's Appraisal -- The Troubled Isle -- Three Final Crises -- Legacies, Continuities, and Disconnects -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 20 Truman and NATO -- Leadership Style in Foreign Policy and NATO -- Truman's Economic Calculus -- Atlantic Values: Ideology, Strategy, and International "Virtue" -- A Man for All Seasons: Directions in Truman's Historiography -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 21 Truman, the United Nations, and the Origins of the Postwar World Order -- Multilateralism or Mere Prelude to Cold War? -- The United Nations and Anticolonialism Movements -- REFERENCES.

FURTHER READING -- 22 The Truman Administration and Cold War Neutrals -- Sweden -- Finland -- Switzerland -- Ireland -- Yugoslavia -- Austria -- India -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 23 The Legacies of Nuremberg in International Law and American Policy -- Nuremberg: Structure and Process of the Trials -- (a) CRIMES AGAINST PEACE -- (b) WAR CRIMES -- (c) CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY -- Fusion of Common and Civil Law -- Common Criticisms of the Nuremberg Trials -- Legacy of Nuremberg Trials in Contemporary Times -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part VI America and the Postwar Pacific Rim -- 24 The Occupation of Japan: A History of Its Histories -- The Making of SCAP History -- From State to Society -- Going Global -- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 25 The Birth of a Rivalry: Sino-American Relations During the Truman Administration -- The Truman Administration and the Chinese Civil War -- The Lost Chance in China Debates -- China and the Korean War -- Possible New Directions -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 26 Conflicts in Korea -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 27 Setting the Pattern: The Truman Administration and Southeast Asia -- The Restoration of European Rule -- The "Hands Off" Interlude -- From Neutrality to Cold War Activism -- Mixed Results -- Evaluations and Legacies -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- References -- Further Reading -- Index.