The Marshall Plan
Subtitle: dawn of the Cold War
By: Benn Steil
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781501102370
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Foreign economic relations; Marshall Plan; Reconstruction (1939-1951); American Economic assistance
Description: 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.
Notes: "February 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-577) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Crisis; title: Rupture; title: Plan; title: Trap; title: Unity; title: Persuasion; title: Sausage; title: Subversion; title: Passage; title: Showdown; title: Division; title: Success?; title: Echoes; title: Appendix A. Truman doctrine speech; title: Appendix B. Marshall's Harvard speech; title: Appendix C. Data; title: Appendix D. Maps.