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The Year of Indecision, 1946 : A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America by Kenneth Weisbrode is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman’s first full year in office In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant start of America Triumphant, in world politics and economics. But the reality is murkier: 1946 brought tension between industry and labor, political disunity, bad veteran morale, housing crises, inflation, a Soviet menace—all shadowed by an indecisiveness that would plague decision makers who would waffle between engagement and isolation, as the country itself pivoted between prosperity and retrenchment, through the rest of the century. The Year of Indecision, 1946 overturns the image of Truman as a can-do leader—1946, in fact, marked a nadir in his troubled presidency. Relations broke down with the Soviet Union, and nearly did with the British. The United States suffered shortages and strikes of a magnitude it had not seen in years. In November 1946, the Democrats lost both houses of Congress. The tension between fear and optimism expressed itself too in popular culture. Americans rejoiced
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- Author
- Kenneth Weisbrode
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670016846
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Memoir, Fiction