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A 5 page book report on Michael Hogan's The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe 1947-1952, which is a rich and detailed study of how the Marshall Plan evolved, was implemented and met the vast majority of its goals. Hogan feels that the Marshall Plan was the most successful peacetime foreign policy carried out by the US during the twentieth century. The $12 billion package of postwar European aid succeeded in creating a stronger, multinational Europe. No additional sources cited.
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ruins and it was realized by American leaders that it would take a great deal of American foreign aid to rebuild the European industrial base. The resulting program of aid
was entitled the European Recovery Program, but became popularly known as the Marshall Plan. Michael Hogans book The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe 1947-1952
is a rich and detailed study how the Marshall Plan evolved, was implemented and met the vast majority of its goals. Hogan feels that the Marshall Plan was
the most successful peacetime foreign policy carried out by the US during the twentieth century.1 The $12 billion package of postwar European aid succeeded in creating a stronger, multinational
Europe; however, Hogan also points out that it did not accomplish this precisely in the way that American had planned. At the time, American statesmen saw the Marshall Plan as
a means to create in Western Europe the same sort of "neoliberal" political economy that had taken root in the US with the New Deal. In other words,
the general goal was to reconstruct the Old World in the model provided by the New. Hogan states, "the goal was to refashion Western Europe in the image of the
United States."2 American leaders who were at the center of this "New Deal synthesis" envisioned an integrated economy for Western Europe that would resemble the large internal market that evolved
from in the US after the Constitution of 1787 was implemented.3 US leaders wanted to construct in Europe the same sort of economic structures that they connected with a multi-lateral
trading order. To achieve these goals, they combined what Hogan refers to as the "free-traders and planners approaches," which refers to reducing barriers to the free flow of goods, services
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