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When you see photographs of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at conferences at Yalta and other places, you have to be mindful of the fact these were not happy campers together.

Churchill in particular didn't trust Stalin.

Roosevelt trusted him a little too much, I think, in retrospect, but shouldn't have

trusted him at all.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was Dr. Bill McLeigh, Victor Davis-Hansonshire

in classical history and Western civilization at Hillsdale College, and also author of Land of Hope,

an invitation to the Great American Story. We go in-depth with Dr. McLean today on the Cold War

chapter Inside Land of Hope. Dr. McLeigh today on the Cold War chapter, Inside Land of Hope.

Dr. McLean, thanks for joining us.

Scott, it's a pleasure.

Taking this opportunity to look inside Land of Hope at specific chapters, this time all thoughts and things were split, the Cold War.

Now, the beginning of the Cold War period probably can't be appreciated without understanding

the prosperity wrought by the Second World War.

What about that economic outlook for Americans following the war?

And how did it shape the coming decade?

Yeah, if I could take a moment and also explain the title, all thoughts and things

were split, it was, it comes from a marvelous essay that James A.G. And he wrote an article in

reaction to the, to the use of the atomic bomb to end the war. And I think like that as a title for the chapter because it captures the ambivalence of the time.

There is, as in your question, enormous prosperity.

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