1/8: In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 by Nick Bunker (Author)
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
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1/8: In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 by Nick Bunker (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Fear-America-World-1950/dp/1541675541/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
In the Shadow of Fear describes the end of one era and the beginning of another. Joseph Stalin tested his first atomic bomb, Mao's army swept through China, and in America the age of FDR gave way to the beginnings of a new conservatism. An aggressive Republican Party, desperate to regain power, seized on rifts among its opponents, and Truman's program for universal health care and civil rights reform went down to defeat. The young Senator Joe McCarthy ambushed Truman and his party with a style of politics that aroused powerful emotions and deepened division. On the eve of the Korean War, a new mood of anger in the nation left many Americans calling in vain for a return to consensus.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the World. |
| 0:05.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:10.0 | This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor. The quote from Bertrand Russell |
| 0:16.3 | 1949. At present, all except the most thoughtless live under the shadow of fear. I welcome the historian Nick Bonker, his |
| 0:27.2 | new book in the Shadow of Fear, America and the World in 1950. These are the months between Labor Day 1949 and the |
| 0:36.7 | North Korean sneak attack on South Korea in late June of 1950 in which everything changed for my life, for the life of the 20th century in America, |
| 0:48.9 | and perhaps for the world. |
| 0:51.2 | There's unfinished business here because what I learned from Nick is that everything |
| 0:55.5 | was in place in that period that we struggle with today in Asia, in Europe, questions |
| 1:01.6 | about budget, questions about personality, the presidency, all of that. |
| 1:06.2 | I welcome Nick. |
| 1:07.8 | Nick, it's a great pleasure to speak with you again. |
| 1:10.0 | We've had occasion to talk about your young Benjamin Franklin, which is inspirational, and your |
| 1:14.8 | empire at the edge, which is the story of Wright before the revolution in the 18th century. |
| 1:21.3 | Here we are now in the 20th century. We're getting closer to modern times now. |
| 1:25.0 | And we're dealing with personalities that are well known if you've read this period, |
| 1:31.0 | but not if you're just watching the news reports in the 21st century. |
| 1:36.4 | I want to begin with the President of the United States Harry Truman. |
| 1:40.9 | He inherits the office at the death of Franklin Roosevelt in early 1945. |
| 1:47.0 | He's aged considerably now as we meet him in the Labor Day in 1949. |
| 1:53.4 | What do we need to know about Harry Truman |
| 1:56.1 | and his desire to be a good president, |
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