Harry S Truman:The Economics of a Populist President

E. Canterbery ()

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Abstract: Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was also the populist President who set the political economic course for the United States to win it merely 40 years later.

Keywords: Harry S Truman; Bessie Wallace (Mrs Truman); the Whistle-Stop Campaign; President's Council of Econmics Advisers (CEA); Employment Act of 1946; Progressive populist; Progressivism; McCarthyism; War and peace; Democrats; Republicans; Keynesian economics; Communism; Iron Curtain; Stalin; New Deal; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Korean Warl Cold War; George C Marshall; Dwight D Eisenhower; Gerhard Colm; World War One; World War Two; Great Depression; Roaring Twenties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9789814541831
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-11

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Ch 2 The Early Years , pp 13-33

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Ch 3 The Political Making of a Populist , pp 35-45

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Ch 4 Mr Truman Goes to Washington , pp 47-65

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Ch 5 The Economics of War and Peace , pp 67-83

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Ch 6 The Employment Act of 1946 and the President's Council of Economic Advisers , pp 85-109

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Ch 7 Communism and The Truman Doctrine , pp 111-126

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Ch 8 The Populist Campaign of 1948 , pp 127-149

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Ch 9 The Marshall Plan , pp 151-164

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Ch 10 Truman's Defining Test: The Korean War , pp 165-182

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Ch 11 Afterward , pp 183-195

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