3. Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution
CHAPTER 3 
A “NEAR-GREAT”?
When Harry Truman left office in January 1953, he was intensely unpopular, even widely despised. Many of his most cherished schemes, from national health insurance (socialized medicine) to universal military training (UMT) had been soundly rejected by Congress and the public. Worst of all, the war in Korea, which he persisted in calling a “police action,” was dragging on with no end in sight.
4. Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities
CHAPTER 4
5. Nazifying the Germans
CHAPTER 5
Reviews
CHAPTER 6
(Leon Trotsky • Irving Howe • Viking Press, 1978)
7. The Two “Testaments” of American Foreign Policy
CHAPTER 7
(Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776 • Walter A. McDougall • Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
8. The Other War that Never Ends: A Survey of Some Recent Literature on World War I
CHAPTER 8
The Second World War has been called the war that never ends. To a lesser degree, the same could be said of the First World War. It has been estimated, for instance, that the Yale library has 34,000 titles on that conflict published before 1977 and more than 5,000 since.
What I propose to do in this chapter is to survey a few recent works.
9. Starving a People into Submission
CHAPTER 9
10. John T. Flynn and the Apotheosis of Franklin Roosevelt
CHAPTER 10
11. On the Brink of World War II
CHAPTER 11
12. The Great War Retold
CHAPTER 12
