Truman & MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown - Hardcover
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Truman & MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown
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...
Michael D. Pearlman retired in 2006 as a professor of history at the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. He is author of Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present and To Make Democracy Safe for America: Patricians and Preparedness in the Progressive Era. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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🏆 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner - History Award
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