Wilson D Miscamble
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilson D Miscamble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilson D |
| FAMILY NAME | Miscamble |
| SIGNATURE | MISCAMBLE W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Clay Risen, Red Scare
Clay Risen is an accomplished popular historian, having written books on Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as well as a guidebook to U.S. producers of whiskey, bourbon, and rye. He brings his dexterity as a writer to his latest work, a broad overview of the post–World War II Red Scare in the United States. Risen claims that the Truman administration's loyalty program “set the stage for the anti-…
James Graham Wilson, America's Cold Warrior
Paul H. Nitze gave “At the Center of Decision” as the subtitle for his 1989 memoir From Hiroshima to Glasnost. James Graham Wilson's political biography of Nitze suggests that a more accurate subtitle would have been “In Proximity to the Center of Decision.” America's Cold Warrior portrays Nitze as a new breed of national security professional—a man who served in various capacities through almost the entire Cold War, from Franklin Roosevelt's pre…
Kennan
Well into his lengthy investigation of “the inner life of George F. Kennan,” Frank Costigliola quotes the observation of one of Kennan's neighbors in Princeton, New Jersey, that “it was not easy being George F. Kennan.” This biography certainly confirms the remark. Costigliola's idiosyncratic study portrays the noted diplomat and historian as “the tortured, talented, and ultimately tragic individual who helped instigate the Cold War and then work…
Road to Surrender
The release of the Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer in July 2023 prompted renewed discussion over the development of the nuclear bomb and its deployment in August 1945. That discussion would have been enriched if more of the participants in it had taken the time to read Evan Thomas's Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II.Thomas, one-time editor of Newsweek and renowned biographer of such notable figures as Ro…
Preaching to His Choir
Journal Article Preaching to His Choir Get access Wilson D. Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2015, Pages 383–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu058 Published: 04 December 2014
The Most Controversial Decision
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision-making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addresse…
The most controversial decision
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research, and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addres…
Truman's Rhetoric Reconsidered
Roosevelt, Truman and the Development of Postwar Grand Strategy
American Political History
In 1995 more than 100 historians gathered at the University of Notre Dame for a conference convened to honour the American historian Vincent P. De Santis. This collection of essays from the conference aims to describe and define the state of political history at the end of the 20th century
FDR and the Creation of the U.N
Journal Article FDR and the Creation of the U.N. Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xii, 287 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06930-8.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1124–1125, https://doi.o…
At a Century's Ending
Journal Article At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982–1995. By George F. Kennan. (New York: Norton, 1996. 351 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03882-3.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1512–1513, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953077 Publishe…
Rejected Architect and Master Builder
This article uses the relationship between George Kennan and Dean Acheson as a lens to track a classic debate over the main lines of postwar American foreign policy, especially in regard to Europe and over such related issues as negotiations with the Soviets, German unification, and the size of and necessity for American conventional and nuclear forces. It clarifies that Kennan did not play the role of powerful architect whose planning provided t…
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Dean G. Acheson's Present at the Creation
The Sorrows of George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Journal Article George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947–1930. By Wilson D. Miscamble. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xx + 419 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-08620-6.) Get access H. W. Brands H. W. Brands Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.23…
Driven Patriot
Journal Article Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of fames Forrestal. By Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New York: Knopf, 1992. xvi + 587 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-57761-2.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 335–336, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Deciding to Divide Germany
Hans J. Morgenthau and the Ethics of American Statecraft
Journal Article Hans J. Morgenthau and the Ethics of American Statecraft. By Greg Russell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xiv + 258 pp. $27.50.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1139–1140, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078933 Published: 01 Decemb…
The Limits of American Catholic Antifascism
Writing in the midst of World War II, the Italian exiles Gaetano Salvemini and Giorgio La Piana charged that the Catholic church in America had bestowed its blessing upon Benito Mussolini and fascism.1In discussing this charge the historian John Diggins admitted that "at first glance it does appear that the American clergy had indeed composed a political choir in behalf of Fascism."2Diggins portrayed a large number of Catholic clergy led by figur…
Symposium
Stanley Hauerwas is an important and controversial contemporary Christian ethicist. In this symposium, two critics take a look at some of his more recent work, and Hauerwas responds. Much of the controversy is over the issue of whether Hauerwas is a sectarian; if so, in what sense; and is that good?—Ed
Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington
No American presidency in this century has inspired quite so much controversy as the turbulent administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even now, on the one-hundreth anniversary of his birth, and nearly fifty years after the coming of the New Deal, the contentious debates sparked during his four terms as chief executive are no less the subject of argument among historians than they were among the adversaries of the day. One issue in point is the …
Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington
No American presidency in this century has inspired quite so much controversy as the turbulent administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even now, on the one-hundreth anniversary of his birth, and nearly fifty years after the coming of the New Deal, the contentious debates sparked during his four terms as chief executive are no less the subject of argument among historians than they were among the adversaries of the day. One issue in point is the …
Roosevelt, Truman and the Development of Postwar Grand Strategy
At a Century's Ending
Journal Article At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982–1995. By George F. Kennan. (New York: Norton, 1996. 351 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03882-3.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1512–1513, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953077 Publishe…
The Evolution of an Internationalist
Anthony Eden and the Truman-Molotov Conversations, April 1945
Over the last decade a considerable debate among diplomatic historians has centered on the effect of the presidential transition from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman on American policy toward the Soviet Union. Some historians, discerning a break between the policies of Roosevelt and Truman, have placed a large responsibility for the cold war on Truman and his advisers.1 In their view Truman reversed a relatively successful policy of coop…
Catholics and American Foreign Policy from McKinley to McCarthy A Historiographical Survey
The American acceptance of the separation of church and state ensured that the churches, like other voluntary associations and domestic pressure groups, might attempt to influence foreign policy formulation and implementation either in their own interests as organizations or in conformity with the beliefs to which they adhere.1 This essay examines and measures the success of such attempts by one religious group—Catholics. It surveys the scholarly…
Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington
No American presidency in this century has inspired quite so much controversy as the turbulent administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even now, on the one-hundreth anniversary of his birth, and nearly fifty years after the coming of the New Deal, the contentious debates sparked during his four terms as chief executive are no less the subject of argument among historians than they were among the adversaries of the day. One issue in point is the …
Symposium
Stanley Hauerwas is an important and controversial contemporary Christian ethicist. In this symposium, two critics take a look at some of his more recent work, and Hauerwas responds. Much of the controversy is over the issue of whether Hauerwas is a sectarian; if so, in what sense; and is that good?—Ed
The Limits of American Catholic Antifascism
Writing in the midst of World War II, the Italian exiles Gaetano Salvemini and Giorgio La Piana charged that the Catholic church in America had bestowed its blessing upon Benito Mussolini and fascism.1In discussing this charge the historian John Diggins admitted that "at first glance it does appear that the American clergy had indeed composed a political choir in behalf of Fascism."2Diggins portrayed a large number of Catholic clergy led by figur…
Deciding to Divide Germany
Hans J. Morgenthau and the Ethics of American Statecraft
Journal Article Hans J. Morgenthau and the Ethics of American Statecraft. By Greg Russell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xiv + 258 pp. $27.50.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1139–1140, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078933 Published: 01 Decemb…
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Journal Article George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947–1930. By Wilson D. Miscamble. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xx + 419 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-08620-6.) Get access H. W. Brands H. W. Brands Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.23…
Driven Patriot
Journal Article Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of fames Forrestal. By Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New York: Knopf, 1992. xvi + 587 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-57761-2.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 335–336, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
Dean G. Acheson's Present at the Creation
The Sorrows of George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Rejected Architect and Master Builder
This article uses the relationship between George Kennan and Dean Acheson as a lens to track a classic debate over the main lines of postwar American foreign policy, especially in regard to Europe and over such related issues as negotiations with the Soviets, German unification, and the size of and necessity for American conventional and nuclear forces. It clarifies that Kennan did not play the role of powerful architect whose planning provided t…
FDR and the Creation of the U.N
Journal Article FDR and the Creation of the U.N. Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xii, 287 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06930-8.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1124–1125, https://doi.o…
At a Century's Ending
Journal Article At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982–1995. By George F. Kennan. (New York: Norton, 1996. 351 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03882-3.) Get access Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1512–1513, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953077 Publishe…
American Political History
In 1995 more than 100 historians gathered at the University of Notre Dame for a conference convened to honour the American historian Vincent P. De Santis. This collection of essays from the conference aims to describe and define the state of political history at the end of the 20th century
Roosevelt, Truman and the Development of Postwar Grand Strategy
Truman's Rhetoric Reconsidered
The Most Controversial Decision
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision-making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addresse…
The most controversial decision
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research, and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addres…
Preaching to His Choir
Journal Article Preaching to His Choir Get access Wilson D. Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2015, Pages 383–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu058 Published: 04 December 2014
Kennan
Well into his lengthy investigation of “the inner life of George F. Kennan,” Frank Costigliola quotes the observation of one of Kennan's neighbors in Princeton, New Jersey, that “it was not easy being George F. Kennan.” This biography certainly confirms the remark. Costigliola's idiosyncratic study portrays the noted diplomat and historian as “the tortured, talented, and ultimately tragic individual who helped instigate the Cold War and then work…
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