Modern Age - Winter 2017 - 31

THE MARSHALL PLAN

1	 Armin Grünbacher, "Cold-War Economics: The Use of Marshall Plan Counterpart Funds
in Germany, 1948-1960," Central European History 45 (2012): 697.
2	 George H. Nash, "Nightmare in Red," The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America
since 1945 (New York: Basic Books, 1976), chap. 4, ; Patrick Allitt, The Conservatives: Ideas
and Personalities throughout American History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2009), 173-83.
3	 Quoted in Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945-1959 (New York: Viking,
1987), 427.
4	 Jay Nordlinger, Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and
Controversial Prize in the World (New York: Encounter, 2012), 178.
5	 See David Hein, "Ronald Reagan and George C. Marshall: A Cold War Affinity," St. Croix
Review 49, no. 4 (2016): 50-56.
6	 David Hein, "In War for Peace: General George C. Marshall's Core Convictions and Ethical Leadership," Touchstone 26, no. 2 (2013): 41-48; Ed Cray, General of the Army: George
C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (New York: Norton, 1990), 18 (quotation).
7	 Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military
Relations (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957), 376-83.
8	 Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence (Bryn Mawr, PA: ISI Books, 1993), 9, 10.
9	 John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National
Security Policy during the Cold War, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005),
55.
10	 John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (New York: Penguin, 2011), 278,
279.
11	Kirk, The Politics of Prudence, 29, 221.
12	 Barry Machado, In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction
Today (Lexington, VA: George C. Marshall Foundation, 2007), 117-18.
13	 Quoted in Greg Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time
When America Helped Save Europe (New York: Free Press, 2007), 149. See Michael J.
Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe,
1947-1952 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 95-96; Walter Isaacson and
Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986; New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2012), 424; Russell Kirk and James McClellan, The Political Principles of
Robert A. Taft (New York: Fleet Press, 1967), 170, 171.
14	 Quoted in Nicolaus Mills, Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of
Age as a Superpower (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2008), 161.
15	 Hal Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from
Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014), 28.
16	 Niall Ferguson, "Dollar Diplomacy: How Much Did the Marshall Plan Really Matter?,"
New Yorker, August 27, 2007, 83.
17	Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement, 125. See Kirk and McClellan, The Political
Principles of Robert A. Taft, 181-82, 185.
18	 Arthur H. Vandenberg, "The Battle for World Peace and Stability," 80th Congress, 2d
Session, March 1, 1948, in Congressional Record, vol. 2, pt. 2, February 20, 1948 to March
15, 1948, 1915-20.
				moder nagejour nal .com 	

31
http://www.modernagejournal.com
Modern Age - Winter 2017

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Modern Age - Winter 2017
