Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Dean Acheson is now considered to be the most important Secretary of State in this century, and 19481952 is considered a watershed in the century's history not least because of Acheson's policies of reviving Japan, opposing China, and committing Americans to Vietnam. McGlothlen's book is a major contribution because it analyzes all these topics with careful research, readable prose, and a point of view that makes it timely for the 1990s." Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
Review
"Controlling the Waves is a 'must read' for any serious student of U.S. policy in Asia during the Cold War. Rendering order out of monographic chaos, McGlothlen persuasively argues that America's 'single, overriding objective in Asia' was 'the restoration of Japan's political stability and economic power.' In the process, he demonstrates that creation of a new 'co-prosperity sphere' was central to that restoration....Controlling the Waves shows us the forest heretofore obscured by the trees. The thesis is provocative and may strike some sparks, in Japan as well as the United States. But its precise and demanding methodology will help it stand the gaff." Thomas J. McCormick, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Review
"A valuable, well-written study that finds a new coherence in Acheson's Asian policies and persuasively argues their significance." George Herring, University of Kentucky
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"Better than anything else I have seen, this book analyzes the economic dimensions of U.S. policy in the western Pacific at the dawn of the Cold War. The sections on Korea and Taiwan are especially rich with new material." William Stueck, University of Georgia
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-306) and index.