San Antonio College Library

"Based largely on material in [the author's] Present at the creation." Includes bibliographical references.

"On June 14, 1951--before the U.S. Senate--Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin reviewed the public career of General George G. Marshall. It was a long and amply documented speech in which no holds were barred. This book is a condensed version of that speech --with the asides cut out--and with new material added, including the treatment accorded the speech by the press. 'My discussion of General Marshall's career,' writes the Senator, 'arose naturally...

In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. During the early Cold War, arms aid grew from a few country and regional programs into a world-wide effort with an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Pach analyzes the Truman administration's increasing reliance on arms aid - for Latin America, Greece and Turkey, China, and Western Europe - to contain Communist...

The substance of this volume consists of two series of lectures. Both Lectureships dealt with the position of our nation in the present world situation, as interpreted from the standponit of the Christian faith.

A study of Truman as commander in chief consisting of a chronicle of the events in which his decisions were of historic significance, including the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan to end World War II, his decisions on postwar civilian control of atomic energy, his intervention in Korea, his leadership in the Cold War, and his conflict with General Douglas MacArthur.

"Benjamin Brown, a young orphan boy transplanted from England to America, undergoes harrowing experiences during the political intrigue of the Federalist period. Ben's struggles to exist reveal the bitter social problems of the era."

"Should the negotiation of the post-World War II peace treaties in Europe be pursued separately or should they be approached within the framework of a general European settlement? The debate on this fundamental foreign policy issue, which has left only faint tracks in the documentary record, is fully explored here for the first time. The book's larger theme is the process by which the Cold War came about. Rostow's interpretation differs from either...