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092			_aWALLACE, H. _bS818
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100	1		_aSteil, Benn, _eauthor. _9223917
245	1	4	_aThe world that wasn't : _bHenry Wallace and the fate of the American century / _cBenn Steil.
246	3	0	_aHenry Wallace and the fate of the American century
250			_aFirst Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
263			_a2402
264		1	_aNew York : _bAvid Reader Press, _c2024.
264		4	_c©2024
300			_a687 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tWhy Wallace? -- _tOf maize, math, and mysticism -- _tThe farmer's New Deal -- _tThe guru and the new country -- _tFighting fascists, planning peace -- _tInto Siberia -- _tChina, through a glass darkly -- _tHistory's pivot -- _tKeeping up with the Joneses -- _t"60 million jobs," four million strikers -- _tMission to Moscow -- _tThe odd tale of the Sino-Soviet Treaty -- _tThe nuclear option -- _tThe New Republic -- _tGideon's Red Army -- _tCollusion -- _tThe people speak -- _tBelief betrayed.
520			_a"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR's third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR's death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace's defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Filmmaker Oliver Stone, among others, has claimed that Wallace's loss ushered in four decades of devastating and unnecessary Cold War. Now, based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil's The World That Wasn't paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Though a brilliant geneticist, Henry Wallace was a self-obsessed political figure, blind to the manipulations of aides-many of whom were Soviet agents and assets. From 1933 to 1949, Wallace undertook a series of remarkable interventions abroad, each aimed at remaking the world order according to his evolving spiritual blueprint. As agriculture secretary, he fell under the spell of Russian mystics, and used the cover of a plant-gathering mission to aid their doomed effort to forge a new theocratic state in Central Asia. As vice president, he toured a Potemkin Siberian continent, guided by undercover Soviet security and intelligence officials who hid labor camps and concealed prisoners. He then wrote a book, together with an American NKGB journalist source, hailing the region's renaissance under Bolshevik leadership. In China, the Soviets uncovered his private efforts to coax concessions to Moscow from Chiang Kai-shek, fueling their ambitions to dominate Manchuria. Running for president in 1948, he colluded with Stalin to undermine his government's foreign policy, allowing the dictator to edit his most important election speech. It was not until 1950 that he began to acknowledge his misapprehensions regarding the Kremlin's aims and conduct. Meticulously researched and deftly written, The World That Wasn't is a spellbinding work of political biography and narrative history that will upend how we see the making of the early Cold War"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aWallace, Henry A. _q(Henry Agard), _d1888-1965. _9288827
650		0	_aVice-presidents _zUnited States _vBiography. _9104905
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945. _921181
651		0	_aUnited States _xRelations _zSoviet Union. _9117009
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xRelations _zUnited States. _9117008
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