The Price of Power: America Since 1945

by Herbert Agar

Book Overview

Once the sword of power has been drawn, it can never again be sheathed. That is the lesson the United States has been learning ever since she emerged from World War II as one of the great world powers. This central issue dominates Herbert Agar's exciting narrative history of the first twelve years of American world responsibility. He reviews the events and crises that have marked postwar history--the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the Berlin airlift,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226009378
• ISBN13: 9780226009377
• Release Date: August 1957
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"