The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War By H. W. Brands

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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed 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 entry into the war, Truman replied testily, "The military commander in the field will have charge of the use of the weapons, as he always has." This suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way. Truman was one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. Heir to a struggling economy, a ruined Europe, and increasing tension with the Soviet Union, on no issue was the path ahead clear and easy. General MacArthur, by contrast, was incredibly popular, as untouchable as any officer has ever been in America. The lessons he drew from World War II were absolute: appeasement leads to disaster and a showdown with the communists was inevitable--the sooner the better. In the nuclear era, when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. The contest of wills between these two titanic characters unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of a faraway war and terrors conjured at home by Joseph McCarthy. From the drama of Stalin's blockade of West Berlin to the daring landing of MacArthur's forces at Inchon to the shocking entrance of China into the war, The General and the President vividly evokes the making of a new American era.

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Two glaring errors (see below) jumped out in the early pages. By themselves they aren't terribly important but left the nagging doubt that perhaps the author was "winging" it to present a smooth story as distinct from a factual narrative. Also agree with other reviewers concerning a lack of dates for many events otherwise well described and the lack of footnoting to allow verification of source material (chapter notes help but are not as useful as a footnote directly connected to a specific statement, claim, allegation, etc.).The errors: On page 14 the author says General MacArthur signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of the United States. Not true - MacArthur signed as SCAP (Supreme Commander Allied Powers) and Admiral Nimitz signed for the United States. Just a page later the author says General MacArthur's offices in Tokyo "soon acquired the name Dai-Ichi, or "Number One," by implication tieing the name of the building to MacArthur's status as the number one person in Japan. In actuality the building was named for the Dai Ichi Mutual Life Insurance company that occupied the building beginning in 1938. As with any book, when one catches things early on that should have been caught by an editor/fact checker, one wonders what other less obvious nuggets also made it though.Overall: good read that could have been better.

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