Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of by Nicolaus Mills

By Nicolaus Mills

Politicians of each stripe usually invoke the Marshall Plan in aid of courses aimed toward utilizing American wealth to increase the nation's strength and impact, remedy intractable third-world monetary difficulties, and wrestle international starvation and disorder. Do any of those impassioned advocates comprehend why the Marshall Plan succeeded the place such a lot of next reduction plans haven't? Historian Nicolaus turbines explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to supply invaluable classes from the prior approximately what the United States can and can't do as a superpower.

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