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In 1946, America got just exited the biggest conflict in modern record and was going to get into another of a sort no one got fought before. We consider this instant as the fantastic start of America Triumphant, in world politics and economics. But the the truth is murkier: 1946 brought stress between industry and labor, politics disunity, bad veteran morale, property crises, inflation, a Soviet menace - all shadowed by an indecisiveness that could plague decision producers who waffle between proposal and isolation as the country itself pivoted between wealth and retrenchment through the rest of the century. The Season of Indecision, 1946 overturns the image of Truman as a can-do innovator - 1946, in fact, designated a nadir in his troubled presidency. Relationships broke down with the Soviet Union and almost did with the Uk. The United States suffered shortages and attacks of an magnitude it had not observed in years. In November 1946 the Democrats lost both residences of Congress. The strain between fear and optimism expressed itself too in popular culture. People in america rejoiced in ability and creative energy, but a shift was making: Bing Crosby making room for Invoice Haley and B. B. Ruler, John Wayne for Montgomery Clift. That calendar year also noticed a burst of soul in literature, music, art work, and film - under the shadow of noir. The issues and tensions we face today echo those of seven generations ago. As we notice in this portrait of the age just before our own, as America discovered, piecemeal and reluctantly, to do something like a world electricity, it tried out - and been successful only partially - to master fear. Indecision, Weisbrode argues, is the leitmotif of American record.
