NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against
Soviet communism but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America's most
dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered his farewell address. How did
one of the least prepared presidents to walk into the Oval Office become one of its most
successful?The year was 1947. The Soviet Union had moved from being America's uneasy ally in
the Second World War to its most feared enemy. With Joseph Stalin's ambitions pushing westward
Turkey was pressured from the east while communist revolutionaries overran Greece. The British
Empire was battered from its war with Hitler and suddenly teetering on the brink of financial
ruin. Only America could afford to defend freedom in the West and the effort was spearheaded
by a president who hadn't even been elected to that office. But Truman would wage a domestic
political battle that carried with it the highest of stakes inspiring friends and foes alike
to join in his crusade to defend democracy across the globe.In Saving Freedom Joe Scarborough
recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country's long twilight struggle
against Soviet communism and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting
coalition that would influence America's foreign policy for generations to come. On March 12
1947 Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of
containment that would soon become known as the Truman Doctrine. That doctrine pledged that the
United States would support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed
minorities or by outside pressures. The untested president's policy was a radical shift from
150 years of isolationism but it would prove to be the pivotal moment that guaranteed Western
Europe's freedom the American Century's rise and the eventual collapse of the Soviet
Union.Truman's triumph over the personal and political struggles that confronted him following
his ascension to the presidency is an inspiring tale of American leadership fierce
determination bipartisan unity and courage in the face of the rising Soviet threat. Saving
Freedom explores one of the most pivotal moments of the twentieth century a turning point when
patriotic Americans of both political parties worked together to defeat tyranny.
