Table of Contents

Introduction Toward the Marshall Plan: from New Era designs to New Deal synthesis; 1. Searching for a 'creative peace': European integration and the origins of the Marshall Plan; 2. Paths to plenty: European recovery planning and the American policy compromise; 3. European union or middle kingdom: Anglo-American formulations, the German problem, and the organizational dimension of the ERP; 4. Strategies of transnationalism: the ECA and the politics of peace and productivity; 5. Changing course: European integration and the traders triumphant; 6. Two worlds or three: the sterling crisis, the dollar gap, and the integration of Western Europe; 7. Between union and unity: European integration and the sterling-dollar dualism; 8. Holding the line: the ECA's efforts to reconcile recovery and rearmament; 9. Guns and butter: politics and diplomacy at the end of the Marshall Plan; Conclusion America made the European way; Bibliography; Index.

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Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe.

Reviews

"As a detailed account of Anglo-American economic diplomacy in the early post-war era it has no rival." The Times Literary Supplement "...goes far beyond description and analysis. Hogan's ambitious, closely reasoned and strongly supported argument is that the Marshall Plan...was a bold attempt to project the American corporative-political economy across the Atlantic." Publishers Weekly "Hogan's book puts the Marshall Plan into its proper historical context, so that the view of it from its fortieth anniversary needs to be modified...there now exists for the first time a definitive study." International History Review "With the publication of Michael Hogan's book we now have the first full diplomatic history of the Marshall Plan. The work is large in size and scope and as accurate and comprehensive in its coverage as could reasonably be expected. To my knowledge there are no relevant archival materials the author has left unexplored in the United States and the United Kingdom and he has used them well." Alan S. Milward, Diplomatic History "Michael Hogan's learned and authoritative study of the European Recovery Program is the fullest yet written, not only in the sense of page numbers but also in the sense of illuminating important aspects of the subject that have been previously neglected." Business History Review

"As a detailed account of Anglo-American economic diplomacy in the early post-war era it has no rival." The Times Literary Supplement "...goes far beyond description and analysis. Hogan's ambitious, closely reasoned and strongly supported argument is that the Marshall Plan...was a bold attempt to project the American corporative-political economy across the Atlantic." Publishers Weekly "Hogan's book puts the Marshall Plan into its proper historical context, so that the view of it from its fortieth anniversary needs to be modified...there now exists for the first time a definitive study." International History Review "With the publication of Michael Hogan's book we now have the first full diplomatic history of the Marshall Plan. The work is large in size and scope and as accurate and comprehensive in its coverage as could reasonably be expected. To my knowledge there are no relevant archival materials the author has left unexplored in the United States and the United Kingdom and he has used them well." Alan S. Milward, Diplomatic History "Michael Hogan's learned and authoritative study of the European Recovery Program is the fullest yet written, not only in the sense of page numbers but also in the sense of illuminating important aspects of the subject that have been previously neglected." Business History Review

The European Recovery Program or Marshall Plan was a massive American-aid package designed to help the war-torn countries of Western Europe after WW II. Hogan, who teaches at Ohio State University, describes the plan from its inception through congressional enactment and analyzes in detail the methods by which it was put into action. His study goes far beyond description and analysis. Hogan's ambitious, closely reasoned and strongly supported argument is that the Marshall Plan was an outgrowth of organizational, economic and political trends that had already forged American business methods before World War II, and that the plan was a bold attempt to project the American corporative-political economy across the Atlantic. The author brings into sharp focus ``the triumph of the traders' approach,'' an important turning point in the history of the plan, and the problems of reconciling European recovery-aid with U.S. rearmament imperatives during the Korean War. (September)