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The world that wasn't Henry Wallace and the fate of the American century

"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War. Henry Wallace...

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Main Author: Steil, Benn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2024.
Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Wallace, Henry A. > (Henry Agard), > 1888-1965.
Vice-Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
United States > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Why Wallace?
  • Of maize, math, and mysticism
  • The farmer's New Deal
  • The guru and the new country
  • Fighting fascists, planning peace
  • Into Siberia
  • China, through a glass darkly
  • History's pivot
  • Keeping up with the Joneses
  • "60 million jobs," four million strikers
  • Mission to Moscow
  • The odd tale of the Sino-Soviet Treaty
  • The nuclear option
  • The New Republic
  • Gideon's Red Army
  • Collusion
  • The people speak
  • Belief betrayed.

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