Hamby on Spalding, Truman and the Cold War

My graduate advisor, mentor, and friend Alonzo Hamby has a typically brilliant review of Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Here is a tiny slice of the essay, from hamby's conclusion:

It is tempting to argue with this book on many secondary issues, but Elizabeth Edwards Spalding has the one big issue right. It was Harry Truman who defined containment, not George Kennan. And that was a good thing.

(Hat tip to History News Network, which recently republished Hamby's article.)