The General vs the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Category
- Fiction
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<b>From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.</b> <br>At the height of the Korean War, Presi
This book was first published in 1951 as The General and the President after President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War -a memorably explosive incident in American political history. But its significance extends far beyond a dramatic episode in the na
xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Professor John W. Spanier examines the central issue of this crisis--the grave challenge to the traditional concept of civilian supremacy, resting in the President of the United States, over the military, that was posed by MacArthur's stand. He makes it clear that this controversy was not unique, th