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The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg - From Isolation to International Engagement (Hardcover)
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The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg - From Isolation to International Engagement (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace
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The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history,
preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington
famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became
more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on
the world stage. Much has been written about the influential
figures who stood at the center of this transformation, but
remarkably little attention has been paid to Arthur H. Vandenberg
(1884--1951), who played a crucial role in moving the nation from
its isolationist past to an internationalist future. Vandenberg
served as a U.S. senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951 and was
known in his early career for his fervent anti-interventionism.
After 1945, he became heavily involved in the establishment of the
United Nations and was a key player in the development of NATO. As
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during 1947 and
1948, Vandenberg helped rally support for President Truman's
foreign policy -- including the Marshall Plan -- and his leadership
contributed to a short-lived era of congressional bipartisanship
regarding international relations. In The Conversion of Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Lawrence S. Kaplan offers the first critical
biography of the distinguished statesman. He demonstrates how
Vandenberg's story provides a window on the political and cultural
changes taking place in America as the country assumed a radically
different role in the world, and makes a seminal contribution to
the history of U.S. foreign policy during the initial years of the
Cold War.
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