Harold Stassen: Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament (Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace) - Hardcover

Kaplan, Lawrence S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813174864 ISBN 13: 9780813174860

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2018

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Harold Stassen (1907-2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual Security Administration and then became the president's special assistant for disarmament. In this position, Stassen had the power to profoundly shape the country's foreign policy and became influential in early Cold War policy discussions about the limits and uses of conventional and nuclear weapons. In this nuanced biography, Lawrence S. Kaplan demonstrates that Stassen's role in Eisenhower's White House deserves more analysis than it has received from scholars. Stassen came to Washington advocating the total elimination of nuclear weapons, but he quickly came to recognize that this would not happen. He refocused his efforts, working for greater international transparency and communication. The liberal internationalism that Stassen espoused became embedded in Cold War policy for decades, and he consistently provided a voice for peace in an increasingly hawkish national security establishment. Stassen, in many ways, was his own worst enemy; his ambition and ego undermined his efforts and clouded his vision. His feuds with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were legendary, and while Dulles often prevailed in the meeting room, Stassen's vision of nuclear restraint was one that Eisenhower shared. Kaplan's study provides a new perspective on nuclear disarmament during a critical period in US history and sheds light on Eisenhower's approach to international relations.

Biografía del autor:

Lawrence S. Kaplan is emeritus director of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Studies at Kent State University and a former Professorial Lecturer in History at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including NATO Divided, NATO United: The Evolution of an Alliance; NATO 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance; and The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0813174864
• ISBN 13: 9780813174860
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244