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Book Report to Congress of the Economic Cooperation Administration

Download or read book Report to Congress of the Economic Cooperation Administration written by United States. Economic Cooperation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Most Noble Adventure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Behrman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-08-07
  • ISBN : 1416545913
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book The Most Noble Adventure written by Greg Behrman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that was at once strategic, altruistic and stunningly effective, and of a time when America stood as a beacon of generosity and moral leadership. When World War II ended in Europe, the continent lay in tatters. Tens of millions of people had been killed. Ancient cities had been demolished. The economic, financial and commercial foundations of Europe were in shambles. Western Europe's Communist parties -- feeding off people's want and despair -- were flourishing as, to the east, Stalin's Soviet Union emerged as the sole superpower on the continent. The Marshall Plan was a four-year, $13 billion (more than $100 billion in today's dollars) plan to provide assistance for Europe's economic recovery. More than an aid program, it sought to modernize Western Europe's economies and launch them on a path to prosperity and integration; to restore Western Europe's faith in democracy and capitalism; to enmesh the region firmly in a Western economic association and eventually a military alliance. It was the linchpin of America's strategy to meet the Soviet threat. It helped to trigger the Cold War and, eventually, to win it. Through detailed and exhaustive research, Behrman brings this vital and dramatic epoch to life and animates the personalities that shaped it. The narrative follows the six extraordinary American statesmen -- George Marshall, Will Clayton, Arthur Vandenberg, Richard Bissell, Paul Hoffman and W. Averell Harriman -- who devised and implemented the Plan, as well as some of the century's most important personalities -- Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Joseph McCarthy -- who are also central players in the drama told here. More than a humanitarian endeavor, the Marshall Plan was one of the most effective foreign policies in all of American history, in large part because, as Behrman writes, it was born and executed in a time when American "foreign policy was defined by its national interests and the very best of ideals."

Book From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis

Download or read book From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis written by Robert E. Wood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of concessional financing to Third World countries from its postwar origins in the Marshall Plan to the debt crisis that engulfed virtually the entire Third World in the early 1980s. It documents the evolution of a system of aid provision, of structured access to concessional external financing. The central focus is on how this structure of access to aid has changed over time and shaped development options an choices in the Third World. From this perspective, the emergence of the debt crisis is closely connected to the role of aid in the world economy. Although the debt crisis had other roots as well, this book elucidates an important set of determinants, generally overlooked, within the systems of aid provision itself. It further seeks to show that the debt crisis defines a new era, not simply a set of discrete and extraordinary events beween, say, Mexico's request for rescheduling in August 1982 and Argentina's coming to terms with the International Monetary Fund in September 1984. The debt crisis has profoundly altered the international environment tha Third Wold countries face, and the legacy of debt will continue to be a central focus of international relations and development choices for years to come. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Book Stockpiling Strategic Materials

Download or read book Stockpiling Strategic Materials written by Glenn Herald Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of thesis, Columbia University.

Book Winning the Peace

Download or read book Winning the Peace written by Nicolaus Mills and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.

Book Publications on Foreign Countries  an Annotated Accession List

Download or read book Publications on Foreign Countries an Annotated Accession List written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications on Foreign Countries

Download or read book Publications on Foreign Countries written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report for the Public Advisory Board of the Economic Cooperation Administration

Download or read book Report for the Public Advisory Board of the Economic Cooperation Administration written by United States. Economic Cooperation Administration. Public Advisory Board and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Into the Fray

Download or read book Into the Fray written by Tom Mascaro and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America s overseas conflicts. Stuart Schulberg supplied film evidence to prosecute Nazi war criminals and established documentary units in postwar Berlin and Paris. NBC newsman David Brinkley created the template for prime-time news in 1961 and bore the scars to prove it. In 1964 Ted Yates and Bob Rogers produced a documentary warning of the pitfalls in Vietnam. Yates was later shot and killed in Jerusalem on the first day of the Six-Day War while producing a documentary for NBC News.In "Into the Fray," Tom Mascaro vividly recounts the characters and experiences that helped create a unique, colorful documentary film crew based at the Washington bureau of NBC News. From the Kennedy era through the Reagan years, the journalists covered wars, rebellions, the Central Intelligence Agency, covert actions, the Pentagon, military preparedness, and world and American cultures. They braved conflicts and crises to tell the stories that Americans needed to see and hear, and in the process they changed the face of journalism. Mascaro also looks at the social changes in and around the unit itself, including the struggles and triumphs of women and African Americans in the field of television documentary."Into the Fray" is the story of adventure, loyalty to reason, and life and death in the service of broadcast journalism."

Book The Department of State Bulletin

Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1950
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1382 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Strategic Trade Control System 1948 1956  Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951  Ninth Report to Congress

Download or read book The Strategic Trade Control System 1948 1956 Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 Ninth Report to Congress written by United States. International Cooperation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surveys of U S  International Finance  1950

Download or read book Surveys of U S International Finance 1950 written by Gardner Patterson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in the series of books reporting and interpreting the policies, plans, debates, and activities involved in U.S. international finance. Prepared under the direction of Gardner Patterson by the International Finance Section, Princeton University. Published annually, in August, one year after the year covered in each volume. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The Marshall Plan Information Program in Western Europe as an Instrument of United States Foreign Policy  1948 1952

Download or read book The Marshall Plan Information Program in Western Europe as an Instrument of United States Foreign Policy 1948 1952 written by Alex S. Edelstein and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Book Harry S  Truman

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 924 pages

Download or read book Harry S Truman written by United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: