In 1949, the Truman administration lurched toward socialism. Opponents in both parties stood in the way. Were they reacting in ‘fear’?
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https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/in-the-shadow-of-fear-review-partisan-rancor-at-midcentury-d84b2032In 2019, Henry Kissinger warned that the U.S. and China had entered the “foothills of a cold war,” and the Sino-American relationship has only worsened since. The prospect of a new cold war has induced some historians to reexamine the old one. Nick Bunker’s “In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950” is one such reexamination.
Mr. Bunker, a British historian and former reporter for the Financial Times, argues that “the real moment of decisive change” occurred not in 1945 but in the “ten months between Labor Day 1949 and the beginning of the Korean War.” That fall, Harry Truman intended to use his Labor Day speech to build momentum behind his ambitious Fair Deal agenda.
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