Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower

By Nicolaus Mills

Book Overview

Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470097558
• ISBN13: 9780470097557
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Winning The Peace

This book was well written and flowed very well from beginning to end. I enjoyed it and would recommend reading it. I was a little disappointed that the author used the opportunity to use this venue for "Bush bashing" as multiple references were made to the current state of affairs in Iraq. I guess some people can't help themselves but I found this out of place, out of context and unnecessary. I did not know I was contributing to someone else's soapbox attempt at pushing their point of view on an unrelated subject. If the author wanted to compare the Marshall Plan to any failing is the US he could have found more agreement on how such a plan could be implemented to get the US out of the current economic mess or implemented to gain energy independence. Something more relevant than Iraq where the battles are still being fought.