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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, double a finalist for the Pulitzer Reward, comes the riveting tale of how Leader Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to choose America's future in the aftermath of World Conflict II. At the level of the Korean Conflict, Leader Harry S. Truman devoted a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's admittance into the conflict, Truman replied testily, "The armed forces commander in the field will have fee of the use of the weapons, as he always has." This advised that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly adorned commander of the North american and UN causes, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. A correction quickly followed, however the harm was done; two visions for America's avenue forward were plainly in opposition, and one man would have to make way. Truman was one of the most unpopular presidents in American background. Heir to a attempting overall economy, a ruined European countries, and increasing stress with the Soviet Union, on no issue was the road forward clear and easy. General MacArthur, by contrast, was extremely popular, as untouchable as any official has ever been in America. The lessons he drew from World Conflict II were utter: appeasement brings about disaster, and a showdown with the Communists was unavoidable - the earlier the better. Inside the nuclear period, when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of an catastrophic under-developed conflict lurked menacingly close on the horizon. The contest of wills between these two titanic individuals unfolds resistant to the turbulent backdrop of an faraway conflict and terrors conjured at home by Joseph McCarthy. From play of Stalin's blockade of Western Berlin to the daring getting of MacArthur's causes at Inchon to the stunning entry of China in to the war, The General vs. the Leader vividly evokes the making of a fresh American era.
