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Truman & MacArthur [[electronic resource] ] : policy, politics, and the hunger for honor and renown / / Michael D. Pearlman



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Autore: Pearlman Michael D (Michael David), <1944-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Truman & MacArthur [[electronic resource] ] : policy, politics, and the hunger for honor and renown / / Michael D. Pearlman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
Disciplina: 951.904/24092273
Soggetto topico: Korean War, 1950-1953 - United States
Civil-military relations - United States - History - 20th century
Executive power - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1945-1953
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-345) and index.
Nota di contenuto: cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; 1 Truman and MacArthur, before Korea; 2 Defense Policy on the Eve of the Korean War; 3 The War against North Korea:From Commitment to the Pusan Perimeter; 4 The War against North Korea:From Inchon to the Yalu River; 5 The War against China: Winter 1950 to Spring 1951; 6 Truman Fires MacArthur; 7 Public Verdict and Consequences:Military and Political, Home and Abroad; 8 Ending the War without Truman or MacArthur; 9 Truman and MacArthur:Summary, Conclusion, and Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive blow that would c
Titolo autorizzato: Truman & MacArthur  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-72644-3
9786611726447
9870253000187
0-253-00018-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828478003321
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