"In recent years, the Marshall Plan has been invoked on numerous occasions as a solution for problems domestic and foreign. This study aims to establish the relevance for contemporary postwar reconstruction projects of an experimental foreign policy conceived and executed back in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The monograph clarifies why and how the Marshall Plan was adopted, what its essential features were, and why it succeeded in western Europe, concluding that it had important and mutually reinforcing aspects-- political, psychological, and economics"--Page vii.

"Sixtieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan"--Cover.

A verifiable past -- Conceptualizing the Marshall Plan -- Selling the Marshall Plan -- Analyzing the Marshall Plan -- Implementing the Marshall Plan -- Greece -- Italy -- Turkey -- Bizonia and West Germany -- A contingent and relevant past -- An unusable Marshall Plan? -- A usable Marshall Plan.