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A 4 page book review. Formally entitled the European Recovery Program, but popularly known as The Marshall Plan, this program of aid was formulated by the United States in order help Europe recover economic prosperity after World War II. In his text The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe 1947-1962, historian Michael Hogan offers a richly detailed study and analysis of what the plan involved, how it was implemented and also how it met the vast majority of its goals, which supports Hogan's major theme, which is that the Marshall Plan was the most successful peacetime foreign policy initiative carried out by the US in the twentieth century. No additional sources cited.
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economic prosperity after World War II. In his text The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe 1947-1962, historian Michael Hogan offers a richly detailed study and
analysis of what the plan involved, how it was implemented and also how it met the vast majority of its goals, which supports Hogans major theme, which is that the
Marshall Plan was the most successful peacetime foreign policy initiative carried out by the US in the twentieth century (Hogan 445). Hogans principal argument is that the Marshall Plan,
a $12 billion package of aid that succeeded in creating a stronger, multinational Europe, did not, however, succeed quite in the way that its American formulators envisioned. According to Hogan,
at the time, American statesmen perceived in the Marshall Plan a methodology for instituting in Western Europe an economy that they felt could be tailored to resemble the one that
took root in the US after the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hogan states that "the goal was to refashion Western Europe in the image of
the United States" (Hogan 89). American leaders envisioned in Europe a multi-lateral trading order that would resemble the trade between states in the US (Hogan 427). The American concept was
that by offering technological solutions for problems, the US would be able to introduce American marketing and engineering methods, which were predicted to not only bring about renewed prosperity, but
would also replace ideological dissension between European states. US leaders envisioned Great Britain dominating this new united Europe and it was believed that such a position would enhance British
power, which was perceived at the time as being "outclassed by the Soviet bloc" (Hogan 113). In exploring how this US vision actually unfolded, Hogan presents a scholarly text,
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