"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace...

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1. Verfasser:	Steil, Benn 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi Avid Reader Press January 2024
Ausgabe:	First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition
Schlagworte:	Wallace, Henry Agard > 1888-1965 Wallace, Henry A / (Henry Agard) / 1888-1965 Vice-Presidents / United States / Biography HISTORY / United States / 20th Century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political United States / Politics and government / 1933-1945 United States / Relations / Soviet Union Soviet Union / Relations / United States Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR's third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR's death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace's defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Filmmaker Oliver Stone, among others, has claimed that Wallace's loss ushered in four decades of devastating and unnecessary Cold War. Now, based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil's The World That Wasn't paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Though a brilliant geneticist, Henry Wallace was a self-obsessed political figure, blind to the manipulations of aides-many of whom were Soviet agents and assets. From 1933 to 1949, Wallace undertook a series of remarkable interventions abroad, each aimed at remaking the world order according to his evolving spiritual blueprint. As agriculture secretary, he fell under the spell of Russian mystics, and used the cover of a plant-gathering mission to aid their doomed effort to forge a new theocratic state in Central Asia. As vice president, he toured a Potemkin Siberian continent, guided by undercover Soviet security and intelligence officials who hid labor camps and concealed prisoners."
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	687 Seiten, 14 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781982127824