Harry Truman's China Policy: Mccarthyism and the Diplomacy of Hysteria, 1947-1951

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By Lewis Mccarroll Purifoy

New Viewpoints, 1977, 316 pp

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The author argues, on the basis of familiar published sources, that the Truman Administration acted against its better judgment in pursuing an antagonistic policy toward Communist China. The reason: McCarthyite pressure. A good contrary case could be made that American policy would have been fundamentally the same, Joe McCarthy or no.

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