The Korean War : a 25-year perspective / edited for the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs by Francis H. Heller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heller, Francis H. (Francis Howard), 1917-2013.

Harry S. Truman Library. Institute for National and International Affairs.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Truman, Harry S.

Korean War, 1950-1953--United States.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 251 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lawrence : The Regents Press of Kansas, [©1977]

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. From where I stood: a panel

3. The Korean War and U.S. foreign relations: the case of NATO / Lawrence S. Kaplan

4. The Korean War and American society / John Edward Wiltz

5. The communist side: an exploratory sketch / Robert R. Simmons

6. The Korean War: the historian's task / Richard W. Leopold

7. Mr. Truman's way with crises / W. Averell Harriman

8. Has America lost her way?: a retrospect on Mr. Truman / Clark M. Clifford.

Notes:

"Commentary and informal discussion following the chapters bring out the contributor's variant interpretations of events. Details of several hitherto unrecorded incidents emerge from the dialogue."--Dustjacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".

Other Format:

Online version: Korean War.

ISBN:

0700601570

9780700601578

OCLC:

2875606