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Harold Stassen - Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament (Hardcover)
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Harold Stassen - Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
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Harold Stassen (1907--2001) garnered accolades as the
thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly
assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr.
during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952,
Stassen was named director of the Mutual Security Administration
and then became the president's special assistant for disarmament.
In this position, Stassen had the power to profoundly shape the
country's foreign policy and became influential in early Cold War
policy discussions about the limits and uses of conventional and
nuclear weapons. In this nuanced biography, Lawrence S. Kaplan
demonstrates that Stassen's role in Eisenhower's White House
deserves more analysis than it has received from scholars. Stassen
came to Washington advocating the total elimination of nuclear
weapons, but he quickly came to recognize that this would not
happen. He refocused his efforts, working for greater international
transparency and communication. The liberal internationalism that
Stassen espoused became embedded in Cold War policy for decades,
and he consistently provided a voice for peace in an increasingly
hawkish national security establishment. Stassen, in many ways, was
his own worst enemy; his ambition and ego undermined his efforts
and clouded his vision. His feuds with Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles were legendary, and while Dulles often prevailed in
the meeting room, Stassen's vision of nuclear restraint was one
that Eisenhower shared. Kaplan's study provides a new perspective
on nuclear disarmament during a critical period in US history and
sheds light on Eisenhower's approach to international relations.
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