Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in Text and NotesCh. 1Director of the Policy Planning Staff3Ch. 2Launching the Marshall Plan43Ch. 3Meditertanean Crises: Greece, Italy, and Palestine75Ch. 4The North Atlantic Treaty113Ch. 5The Division of Germany141Ch. 6Titoism, Eastern Europe, and Political Warfare178Ch. 7The Limits of America's China Policy212Ch. 8Japan and Southeast Asia247Ch. 9The Hydrogen Bomb and the Soviet Threat281Ch. 10Korean Dilemmas and Beyond314Conclusion: America's Global Planner?346Appendix A: Policy Planning Staff Papers, 1947-1949359

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This book is the most insightful treatment of George Kennan that has yet been published and the best work I know on the making of U.S. foreign policy during this period. The work is an astonishing scholarly accomplishment. Miscamble offers fresh interpretations and a new sense of the context in which policy was made and of the complex influences on the policymakers. -- Richard H. Ullman, Princeton University

About the Author

Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews

Finalist for the 1993 Hoover Presidential Library Association Book Award "A good analytical examination of American foreign policy as seen through the lens of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff... As such it embraces much more than the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The author insists that there was no grand design to American policy in these years, but one is impressed by the pervasive and lucid intellect of Ambassador Kennan."--William G. Hyland, Foreign Affairs

Finalist for the 1993 Hoover Presidential Library Association Book Award "A good analytical examination of American foreign policy as seen through the lens of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff... As such it embraces much more than the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The author insists that there was no grand design to American policy in these years, but one is impressed by the pervasive and lucid intellect of Ambassador Kennan."--William G. Hyland, Foreign Affairs