| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2005. Pp. ix, 323. $40.00.

In this book, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding argues that Harry S. Truman was the key architect of United States policy in the early Cold War, characterizing George F. Kennan as a moral relativist who failed to understand "the fundamental essence of the Cold War as Truman understood it" (p. 105). The Truman who emerges from these pages "grasped the meaning of the war of nerves" with the Soviet Union and "not only remade liberal internationalism but also constructed a corresponding grand strategy of containment" (p. 231).

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