Truman & MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown

by Michael D. Pearlman

Book Overview

Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253350662
• ISBN13: 9780253350664
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher