LEADER 06439cam a2200697 i 4500001 99129906402506421 005 20240307032449.0 008 230815t20242024nyuaf e b 001 0beng^^ 010 2023035161 019 1416717627 020 9781982127824 |qhardcover 020 1982127821 |qhardcover 020 |z9781982127831 |qpaperback 020 |z9781982127848 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1384410970 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dJSE |dGP5 |dOCLCO |dIND |dOCLCO |dUAP |dCDX |dYDX 042 pcc 043 n-us---e-ur--- 050 10 E748.W23 |bS745 2024 082 00 973.917092B |223/eng/20230823 084 HIS036060BIO010000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Steil, Benn, |eauthor. 245 14 The world that wasn't : |bHenry Wallace and the fate of the American century / |cBenn Steil. 246 3 World that was not 246 30 Henry Wallace and the fate of the American century 250 First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. 264 1 New York, NY : |bAvid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., |c2024. 264 4 |c©2024 300 687 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations (some color) ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 "A Council on Foreign Relations book" -- title page. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |tWhy Wallace? -- |tOf maize, math, and mysticism -- |tThe farmer's New Deal -- |tThe guru and the new country -- |tFighting fascists, planning peace -- |tInto Siberia -- |tChina, through a glass darkly -- |tHistory's pivot -- |tKeeping up with the Joneses -- |t"60 million jobs," four million strikers -- |tMission to Moscow -- |tThe odd tale of the Sino-Soviet Treaty -- |tThe nuclear option -- |tThe New Republic -- |tGideon's Red Army -- |tCollusion -- |tThe people speak -- |tBelief betrayed. 520 "From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR's third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR's death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace's defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Filmmaker Oliver Stone, among others, has claimed that Wallace's loss ushered in four decades of devastating and unnecessary Cold War. Now, based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil's The World That Wasn't paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Though a brilliant geneticist, Henry Wallace was a self-obsessed political figure, blind to the manipulations of aides-many of whom were Soviet agents and assets. From 1933 to 1949, Wallace undertook a series of remarkable interventions abroad, each aimed at remaking the world order according to his evolving spiritual blueprint. As agriculture secretary, he fell under the spell of Russian mystics, and used the cover of a plant-gathering mission to aid their doomed effort to forge a new theocratic state in Central Asia. As vice president, he toured a Potemkin Siberian continent, guided by undercover Soviet security and intelligence officials who hid labor camps and concealed prisoners. He then wrote a book, together with an American NKGB journalist source, hailing the region's renaissance under Bolshevik leadership. In China, the Soviets uncovered his private efforts to coax concessions to Moscow from Chiang Kai-shek, fueling their ambitions to dominate Manchuria. Running for president in 1948, he colluded with Stalin to undermine his government's foreign policy, allowing the dictator to edit his most important election speech. It was not until 1950 that he began to acknowledge his misapprehensions regarding the Kremlin's aims and conduct. Meticulously researched and deftly written, The World That Wasn't is a spellbinding work of political biography and narrative history that will upend how we see the making of the early Cold War"-- |cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Wallace, Henry A. |q(Henry Agard), |d1888-1965. 650 0 Vice-presidents |zUnited States |vBiography. 651 0 United States |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945. 651 0 United States |xRelations |zSoviet Union. 651 0 Soviet Union |xRelations |zUnited States. 651 6 États-Unis |xPolitique et gouvernement |y1933-1945. |0(CaQQLa)201-0074008 650 7 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. |2bisacsh 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. |2bisacsh 600 17 Wallace, Henry A. |q(Henry Agard), |d1888-1965 |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01717154 650 7 International relations |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00977053 650 7 Politics and government |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 Vice-presidents |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01166246 651 7 Soviet Union |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 United States |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 1933-1945 |2fast 655 7 Biographies |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Biographies. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 776 08 |iOnline version:Steil, Benn |tWorld that wasn't |bFirst Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |dNew York : Avid Reader Press, 2024 |z9781982127848 |w(DLC) 2023035162 910 |cC0703mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h974838 914 (OCoLC)on1384410970 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240306 |eprocessed |f1384410970 980 20350838 |f974838 |i40.00 |j32.80 |n40032150362 982 |cf |q32101119547535