Saving Freedom

Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

By: Joe Scarborough

Narrated by: Joe Scarborough

Saving Freedom has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

History of Congress

I thought this was more about the machinations of Congress than HST. it was kind of drony to me.

Focus on Greece civil war after WWII

Good book, good narration. Surprised it focused on Greece and Turkey and standing up to Communism there rather than the Korean conflict (which is what I expected). The Truman doctrine became the guiding foreign policy of the US for 70 years. Peace was secured by Truman, Dean Acheson, Vandenberg, Marshall plan and formation of NATO.

A history well worth your time.

It is a story worth knowing. This book will also help America stop our drift toward Autocracy pushed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection attack on the Capitol Building.

Wish Trump had read this history

Joe Scarborough serves up the history of why America needs NATO and our alliance with western democracies. Harry Truman was a great man who rose to fight communism, while Trump failed to understand the threat from Russia.

An important book about the American Presidency

Joe Scarborough’s book is an important history of the Truman Doctrine which was Harry Truman’s successful plan to help Greece and Turkey and ultimately other nations defeat the plans of the Soviet Union to infiltrate and conquer American allies greatly vulnerable because of destruction and ruin cause by World War II. The doctrine was a bipartisan plan that helped the United States and the free world for decades and ultimately ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Joe Scarborough is far from a professional historian. He is no Erik Larson or David McCullough, but he blends Truman’s life with his own experiences in Congress and ultimately shows the distinctions between a Trump foreign policy and its failures compared with President Truman’s success. While the book is not chronological, it is because Scarborough concentrates such as the United Nations, the end of World War II, Truman’s election as President as well as his early life. One may have wished for less detail about the opposition and support of many congress people to the plan, but Scarborough’s descriptions of the great players like David Atchison, General George Marshall and Senator and Arthur Vandenberg. This is a fine book about an important part of American presidential history.