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Article: Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2009
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Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. By Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 142. $24.95.)
In a brilliant and concise work (a little over one hundred pages of text), the dean of American presidential historians delivers a critical commentary on the Cold War revisionists who tended to shift the blame for many of the Soviet-American encounters following World War II from the Soviet Union to the United States, from Joseph Stalin to Harry Truman. Robert H. Ferrell targets the works of Walter LaFeber, Gar Alperovitz, Lloyd Gardner, and other followers of William Appleman Williams at the University of Wisconsin, who ...