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Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation
Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948 reveals how during the first half of 1948, Truman and the two most important members of his cabinet, Marshall and Forrestal, systematically deceived Congress and the public into thinking that the U.S.S.R. was about to launch World War III with an invasion of Western Europe. As Professor Kofsky demonstrates, however, virtually ...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
January 15th 1995
by Palgrave Macmillan
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One of my favorite, detailed examinations of early Cold War disinformation by the U.S. to scare the public into funding Boeing, Lockheed, etc. Reading the correspondence between the aircraft industry and government is eye-opening. This scare set the precedent for all those that were to follow. Call it conservative socialism at its best. Every president continued the tradition from Kennedy to Reagan (and, of course, the Bushes).
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