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The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

Behrman, Greg

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The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that was at once strategic, altruistic and stunningly effective, and of a time when America stood as a beacon of generosity and moral leadership. When World War II ended in Europe, the continent lay in tatters. Tens of millions of people had been killed. Ancient cities had been demolished. The economic, financial and commercial foundations of Europe were in shambles. Western Europe's Communist parties -- feeding off people's want and despair -- were flourishing as, to the east, Stalin's Soviet Union emerged as the sole superpower on the continent. The Marshall Plan was a four-year, $13 billion (more than $100 billion in today's dollars) plan to provide assistance for Europe's economic recovery. More than an aid program, it sought to modernize Western Europe's economies and launch them on a path to prosperity and integration; to restore Western Europe's faith in democracy and capitalism; to enmesh the region firmly in a Western economic association and eventually a military alliance. It was the linchpin of America's strategy to meet the Soviet threat. It helped to trigger the Cold War and, eventually, to win it. Through detailed and exhaustive research, Behrman brings this vital and dramatic epoch to life and animates the personalities that shaped it. The narrative follows the six extraordinary American statesmen -- George Marshall, Will Clayton, Arthur Vandenberg, Richard Bissell, Paul Hoffman and W. Averell Harriman -- who devised and implemented the Plan, as well as some of the century's most important personalities -- Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Joseph McCarthy -- who are also central players in the drama told here.

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Title of ebook: The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
ISBN: 9781416545910
Publisher: Free Press
Internet download file size: 1422 kb
Released online for download: 08-07-2007
Author of eBook: Behrman, Greg

The Most Noble Adventure

The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

PROLOGUE

JUNE 5, 1947.

The bell tolled at 9:30 a.m. The midmorning sun made its arc in a clear blue sky, a warm salutation to the crowd of seven thousand -- mostly parents of graduates, scholars and selected guests -- as they filtered into the yard between Widener Library and Memorial Church. The day marked Harvard University's 286th Commencement, and the first "fully normal" graduation ceremony since the United States had entered World War II five and a half years earlier.

The war had claimed 300,000 American lives; it had cost $300 billion in treasure; and it had demanded immeasurable sacrifice. Now it was over. The crimson robes, the Latin perorations, the diplomas, the handshakes and the celebrations -- all the customary features of that day were meant to mark a return to normalcy.

It was generally recognized that one man, more than any other, had delivered America victory and had made the return to peace possible. As the procession came into view, the crowd caught a glimpse of him. They sprang to thei ... read full excerpt from The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe ebook


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