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Book Review
| From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx, 393 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86244-8.)
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| In From Roosevelt to Truman, Wilson D. Miscamble examines Harry S. Truman's foreign policy in the early years of his presidency. Miscamble argues that the Truman administration spent its first two years trying to continue Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy of accommodation toward the Soviet Union, but, driven by external circumstances, the administration gradually "built the enduring framework for postwar American foreign policy" (p. 322). |
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