7/8: In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 by Nick Bunker (Author)
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🗓️ 30 March 2024
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7/8: 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.
1952 WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:02.0 | This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor. I'm with Nick Bunker the historian. His new book is in the Shadow of Fear. |
| 0:09.0 | America and the World in 1950. |
| 0:12.0 | There are future players. America and the world in 1950. |
| 0:13.0 | There are future players present on the scene. |
| 0:17.8 | We've mentioned Eisenhower, who will be elected in 1952 and take office in 1953. |
| 0:24.0 | The governor of Illinois is important here. |
| 0:28.0 | Adley Stevenson, who's seen as a moderate Democrat, |
| 0:32.0 | a man who is part of the middle way that a professor named Schlesinger identifies |
| 0:37.7 | as the success that America needs to find. A middle way, not the right, not the left. |
| 0:43.6 | As William F Buckley, a young man just leaving Yale, |
| 0:47.5 | who's been stifled momentarily by the leadership at Yale |
| 0:50.9 | from giving a speech that if you read it today you find it |
| 0:54.7 | very very even-tempered but in those days it would have been understood as |
| 0:59.4 | God and man at Yale is the book that comes from it. |
| 1:05.0 | But we need to concentrate on a man who doesn't get a great deal of credit given that |
| 1:10.0 | his genius is still with us. |
| 1:12.0 | Paul Nitza, who is still with us. Paul N. |
| 1:13.0 | N. C. 60 who is tasked with constructing NSC 68. |
| 1:17.0 | Nick, who was Paul NHTSA and what was NSC 68 to his understanding. |
| 1:23.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:24.3 | Well, Paul Nitzi was a former investment banker. |
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