In A Cross of Iron, one of the country's most distinguished diplomatic historians provides a comprehensive account of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making as it unfolded in struggles to unify the armed forces, harness science to military purposes, mobilize military manpower, control the defense budget, and distribute the cost of defense across the economy. At stake, Hogan argues, was a fundamental contest over the nation's political identity and postwar purpose. President Harry S. Truman and his successor were in the middle of this contest. According to Hogan, they tried to reconcile an older set of values with the new ideology of national security and the country's democratic traditions with its global obligations. Their efforts determined the size and shape of the national security state that finally emerged.

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954

History

Hogan, Michael J.

Americas

Cambridge University Press

Michael Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. American officials hoped to refashion Western Europe into a smaller version of the integrated single-market and mixed capitalist economy that existed in the United States. Professor Hogan's emphasis on integration is part of a major reinterpretation that sees the Marshall Plan as an extension of American domestic and foreign-policy developments stretching back through the interwar period to the Progressive Era. Michael Hogan is Professor of History at Ohio State University and editor of Diplomatic History.

The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

A Cross of Iron provides the fullest account yet of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making through struggles to unify the armed forces, harness science to military purposes, mobilize military manpower, control the defense budget, and distribute the cost of defense across the economy. President Harry S. Truman and his successor were in the middle of a fundamental contest over the nation's political identity and postwar purpose, and their efforts determined the size and shape of the national security state that finally emerged.

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954

The teaching of ophthalmic histology has not changed significantly since the publication of the textbook by Salzmann (1912). the admirable textbook by Duke-Elder and Wybar (1961) partially fills this gap, but it is largely devoted to anatomy and is incomplete with respect to histology. Therefore, we decided to prepare this textbook for use in the teaching of postdoctoral fellows, residents, interns and medical students. It should be of value for all persons being trained in the visual sciences and should provide a research source for general histologists, biochemists and physiologists. (From the Preface.)

Histology of the human eye;: An atlas and textbook

W.B.SAUNDERS COMPANY

Informal entente: The private structure of cooperation in Anglo-American economic diplomacy, 1918-1928

University of Missouri Press

In his new book, Michael J. Hogan, a leading historian of the American presidency, offers a new perspective on John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as seen not from his life and times but from his afterlife in American memory. The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considers how Kennedy constructed a popular image of himself, in effect, a brand, as he played the part of president on the White House stage. The cultural trauma brought on by his assassination further burnished that image and began the process of transporting Kennedy from history to memory. Hogan shows how Jacqueline Kennedy, as the chief guardian of her husband's memory, devoted herself to embedding the image of the slain president in the collective memory of the nation, evident in the many physical and literary monuments dedicated to his memory. Regardless of critics, most Americans continue to see Kennedy as his wife wanted him remembered: the charming war hero, the loving husband and father, and the peacemaker and progressive leader who inspired confidence and hope in the American people.

The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

In his new book, Michael J. Hogan, a leading historian of the American presidency, offers a new perspective on John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as seen not from his life and times but from his afterlife in American memory. The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considers how Kennedy constructed a popular image of himself, in effect, a brand, as he played the part of president on the White House stage. The cultural trauma brought on by his assassination further burnished that image and began the process of transporting Kennedy from history to memory. Hogan shows how Jacqueline Kennedy, as the chief guardian of her husband's memory, devoted herself to embedding the image of the slain president in the collective memory of the nation, evident in the many physical and literary monuments dedicated to his memory. Regardless of critics, most Americans continue to see Kennedy as his wife wanted him remembered: the charming war hero, the loving husband and father, and the peacemaker and progressive leader who inspired confidence and hope in the American people.

The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Imprint Pubns

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A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954

The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954

Histology of the human eye;: An atlas and textbook

Informal entente: The private structure of cooperation in Anglo-American economic diplomacy, 1918-1928

The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Biography

The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928