The Visionaries: America and the post second World War dream by James Holland #foliosociety Finalist for the National Book

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Through a series of glittering fragmental prose poems and evocative postcards

'Who knew that writing with this degree of care and pain and tact was still possible

these diaries document a decade of highs

What does it all mean

The Visionaries: America and the post second World War dream by James Holland #foliosociety Finalist for the National BookFrom the pre eminent historian of WWII, an impassioned appreciation of the unprecedented postwar decision by the United States to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, leading to eight decades of peace and shared prosperity, which are being upended in todays political environment. On March 12, 1947, less than two years after the end of WWII, President Harry S. Truman gave what proved to be a seminal speech before Congress, in