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3/8: In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 by Nick Bunker (Author)

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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3/8: 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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This is CBSi in the world.

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I'm John Batche The historian Nick Bunker in the

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shadow of fear America in the world in 1950. We've met the Democrats in charge of

0:40.8

Congress and the executive. Now we need to meet the Republicans.

0:45.0

Bob Taft, Mr. Conservative, the son of a president, a man who dominates Ohio except for he's running for re-election.

0:53.4

He's bald, he's energetic, he's extremely exciting because he comes up with arguments that

0:59.4

are intellectual at the same time populist. he drives his own car around Ohio.

1:06.0

However, there's much more to Bob Taft than just talking about Ohio.

1:12.0

There is his foreign policy visions.

1:14.0

Nick, Bob Taft, surprising to learn, was pro-Taiwan,

1:19.0

was very much a man who was thinking about the world outside of the Middle West, which is where the Republicans

1:26.2

were strong at this moment. He has ambitions. First he wants to get reelected in 1950.

1:32.4

Is he thinking about himself as president at this time?

1:37.0

Oh yes, I think he was definitely thinking about himself as the presidential candidate for 52.

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