The Truman Presidency

Papers presented at a symposium at the Wilson Center, Sept. 1984 organized by the Center's Program on American Society and Politics and the staff of the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution Includes bibliographical references The mind and character of Harry S. Truman / Alonzo L. Hamby -- Forging America's postwar order / Robert Griffith -- Attitudes toward industry in the Truman administration / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- Labor in the Truman era : origins of the "private welfare state" / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Postwar American society : dissent and social reform / William H. Chafe -- "Some sort of peace": President Truman, the American people, and the atomic bomb / Paul Boyer -- The national security state reconsidered : Truman and economic containment, 1945-1950 / Robert A. Pollard -- The insecurities of victory : the United States and the perception of the Soviet threat after World War II / John Lewis Gaddis -- Alliance and autonomy : European identity and U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Truman years / Charles S. Maier -- U.S. policy in the Near East / Bruce R. Kuniholm -- Toward a post-colonial order : Truman administration policies toward South and Southeast Asia / Robert J. McMahon -- Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia / John W. Dower -- The Truman administration and the Korean War / Barton J. BernsteinIntroduction and summary: the Truman era in retrospect / Michael J. Lacey -- The mind and character of Harry S. Truman / Alonzo L. Hamby -- Forging America's postwar order: domestic politics and political economy in the age of Truman / Robert Griffith -- Attitudes toward industry in the Truman administration: the macroeconomic origins of microeconomic policy / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- Labor in the Truman era: origins of the "private welfare state" / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Postwar American society: dissent and social reform / William H. Chafe -- "Some sort of peace": President Truman, the American people, and the atomic bomb / Paul Boyer -- The national security state reconsidered: Truman and economic containment, 1945-1950 / Robert A. Pollard -- The insecurities of victory: the United States and the perception of the Soviet threat after World War II / John Lewis GaddisAlliance and autonomy: European identity and U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Truman years / Charles S. Maier -- U.S. policy in the Near East: the triumphs and tribulations of the Truman administration / Bruce R. Kuniholm -- Toward a post-colonial order: Truman administration policies toward South and Southeast Asia / Robert J. McMahon -- Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia / John W. Dower -- The Truman administration and the Korean War / Barton J. Bernstein.