02928cam a2200337 i 4500 1061596145 TxAuBib 20240111120000.0 230815s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023035161 9781982127824 HRD 40.00 1982127821 HRD 40.00 TxAuBib rda Steil, Benn, author. The world that wasn't [BOOK] : Henry Wallace and the fate of the American century / Benn Steil. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024. 687 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-651) and index. Why Wallace? -- Of maize, math, and mysticism -- The farmer's New Deal -- The guru and the new country -- Fighting fascists, planning peace -- Into Siberia -- China, through a glass darkly -- History's pivot -- Keeping up with the Joneses -- "60 million jobs," four million strikers -- Mission to Moscow -- The odd tale of the Sino-Soviet Treaty -- The nuclear option -- The New Republic -- Gideon's Red Army -- Collusion -- The people speak -- Belief betrayed. "Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR’s death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace’s defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Filmmaker Oliver Stone, among others, has claimed that Wallace’s loss ushered in four decades of devastating and unnecessary Cold War. Now, based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil’s The World That Wasn’t paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Though a brilliant geneticist, Henry Wallace was a self-obsessed political figure, blind to the manipulations of aides—many of whom were Soviet agents and assets. The World That Wasn’t is political biography and narrative history that will upend how we see the making of the early Cold War.". 20240827. Wallace, Henry A (Henry Agard) 1888-1965. Vice-Presidents United States Biography. United States Politics and government 1933-1945. United States Relations Soviet Union. Soviet Union Relations United States.