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Article: The Shaping of Containment: Harry S. Truman, the National Security Council, and the Cold War.(Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
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- March 1, 2000
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The Shaping of Containment: Harry S. Truman, the National Security Council, and the Cold War. By Sara L. Sale. Saint James, NY: Brandywine Press, 1998. 250 pp. $14.50 cloth.
In her book, The Shaping of Containment: Harry S. Truman, the National Security Council, and the Cold War, Sara Sale explains how the National Security Council (NSC) was created to respond to new foreign policy challenges in the postwar era. Overcoming his initial suspicions of the NSC's corporatist structure, Truman recognized the need "to establish a structured method of obtaining information about military and foreign affairs" (p. 15). More than any president other than Dwight Eisenhower, ...