The Price of Power: America Since 1945 (Chicago History of American Civilization) - Hardcover

Agar, Herbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226009351 ISBN 13: 9780226009353

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1957

Synopsis

Once the sword of power has been drawn, it can never again be sheathed. That is the lesson the United States has been learning ever since she emerged from World War II as one of the great world powers. This central issue dominates Herbert Agar's exciting narrative history of the first twelve years of American world responsibility. He reviews the events and crises that have marked postwar history—the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the Berlin airlift, the Eightieth Congress and Truman's election, the Hiss case, the collapse of Nationalist China, the McCarthy hearings, the atom and hydrogen bombs, McCarthy's "retirement," and Eisenhower's first election. In the great tradition of journalism and history, Mr. Agar has based his writings on close observation of recent world events and on his acquaintance with the people who have participated in them. He presents a vigorous and brilliant interpretation of the difficult years of America's coming of age in the field of international politics and diplomacy and a candid evaluation of the price America must pay as the world's most powerful nation.

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About the Author

Herbert Agar, distinguished author, editor, and publisher, settled in England after editing the Louisville Courier-Journal from 1940 to 1942. Among his earlier books are The People's Choice (Pulitzer Prize winner in 1933), A Time for Greatness, and The Price of Union.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0226009351
• ISBN 13: 9780226009353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210