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“We Must Put on the Armor of God”: Harry Truman and the Cold War

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Religion and the American Presidency

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Truman was both a believer and a practical man. Strongly opinionated and ecumenical at the same time, he aimed to build an international coalition to fight world communism.

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Spalding, E.E. (2018). “We Must Put on the Armor of God”: Harry Truman and the Cold War. In: Rozell, M., Whitney, G. (eds) Religion and the American Presidency. The Evolving American Presidency. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62175-3_6

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