Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction and summary: The Truman era in retrospect

pp 1-18

1 - The mind and character of Harry S. Truman

pp 19-54

Part I - Domestic politics and issues

pp 55-56

2 - Forging America's postwar order: domestic politics and political economy in the age of Truman

pp 57-88

3 - Attitudes toward industry in the Truman administration: the macroeconomic origins of microeconomic policy

pp 89-127

4 - Labor in the Truman era: origins of the “private welfare state”

pp 128-155

5 - Postwar American society: dissent and social reform

pp 156-173

6 - “Some sort of peace”: President Truman, the American people, and the atomic bomb

pp 174-202

Part II - Foreign policy and national defense

pp 203-204

7 - The national security state reconsidered: Truman and economic containment, 1945–1950

pp 205-234

8 - The insecurities of victory: the United States and the perception of the Soviet threat after World War II

pp 235-272

9 - Alliance and autonomy: European identity and U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Truman years

pp 273-298

10 - U.S. policy in the Near East: the triumphs and tribulations of the Truman administration

pp 299-338

11 - Toward a post-colonial order: Truman administration policies toward South and Southeast Asia

pp 339-365

12 - Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia

pp 366-409

13 - The Truman administration and the Korean War

pp 410-444

About the authors

pp 445-446

Index

pp 447-458