| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Security. By Linda McFarland. (Westport: Praeger, 2001. x, 212 pp. $62.00, ISBN 0-275-97190-2.)

Throughout the early Cold War, Missouri's Stuart Symington played a highly visible role, serving as the first air force secretary and then for twenty-four years as a U.S. senator. He garnered widespread attention during the dramatic Army-McCarthy hearings when he defended the military establishment against the charges of the Wisconsin senator, who called him 'Sanctimonious Stu.' Many considered it the Missourian's 'finest hour.' As his political ambitions grew, he criticized with 'strident, and sometimes almost hysterical rhetoric' the Eisenhower administration for neglecting the nation's military defenses. He saw himself as a presidential candidate in 1960 and, until the last moment, thought he would be John F. Kennedy's vice-presidential candidate. Linda McFarland's Cold War Strategist is a welcomed study of a prominent politician and ardent cold warrior who knew how to manipulate the media. . . .

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