| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. By Elizabeth Edwards Spalding. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 6. x, 323 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8131-23925.)

Before the war in Iraq, many supporters of President George W. Bush urged him to act as boldly as President Harry S. Truman had in repulsing North Korea in 1950 by imposing regime change on Baghdad and bringing freedom to Iraq and, perhaps, the Middle East. Now Elizabeth Edwards Spalding approvingly likens Truman to Bush and contends that Truman conceived and directed containment, which was defined by his political, economic, and religious beliefs. Spalding argues that Truman correctly viewed communism as a secular, millennial religion that informed the Kremlin's worldview and actions and made it the chief threat to American security, liberty, and world peace, and that he rightly concluded that only strength could curb the Soviets.

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