Michael J Hogan

Michael J. Hogan

This collection of essays surveys the Hiroshima story.

Hiroshima in History and Memory

This book, first published in 1992, examines the end of the Cold War and the implications for the history and future of the world order.

Its Meaning and Implications

The End of the Cold War

Frank Costigliola

This volume presents substantially revised and new essays on methodology and approaches in foreign and international relations history.

Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

Thomas G. Paterson

Revised and updated introduction to American diplomatic history.

America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952

The Marshall Plan

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field.

America in the World

Mary Ann Heiss

The Cold War profoundly transformed American society, perhaps most significantly through the development of national security institutions that are very much alive more than two decades after the end of the Cold War. This volume explores the great divide between those in the Truman administration who defended tradition and those who spoke for the new ideology of national security. In a highly charged political environment that pitted not only Republican against Democrat, but also civilian authority against military authority and the legislative branch against the executive, Americans struggled to adapt to a new world order while retaining ideals of freedom and individuality. At issue were basic questions about the nation's post-war purpose and political identity, the role of the military in civilian life, and even the rights of the individual versus the rights of the state.

Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman

Discusses the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War.

Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954

A Cross of Iron

Analyzes the political and economic goals of the Marshall Plan discusses Britain's role in the plan, and assesses the outcome of U.S. aid and advice

America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952

In his new book, Michael J. Hogan, a leading historian of the American presidency, offers a new perspective on John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as seen not from his life and times but from his afterlife in American memory. The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considers how Kennedy constructed a popular image of himself, in effect, a brand, as he played the part of president on the White House stage. The cultural trauma brought on by his assassination further burnished that image and began the process of transporting Kennedy from history to memory. Hogan shows how Jacqueline Kennedy, as the chief guardian of her husband's memory, devoted herself to embedding the image of the slain president in the collective memory of the nation, evident in the many physical and literary monuments dedicated to his memory. Regardless of critics, most Americans continue to see Kennedy as his wife wanted him remembered: the charming war hero, the loving husband and father, and the peacemaker and progressive leader who inspired confidence and hope in the American people.

Michael J. Hogan

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