Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge

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Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge

A review of The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil; 687 pages; New York: Avid Reader Press (January 2024) I. Henry A. Wallace and His ApologistsBenn Steil is a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and the prize-winning author of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War and The Battle of Bretton Woods. These two books have justly established Steil as a major diplomatic historian, who h…