"As a detailed account of Anglo-American economic diplomacy in the early post-war era it has no rival." The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction Toward the Marshall Plan: from New Era designs to New Deal synthesis; 1. Searching for a 'creative peace': European integration and the origins of the Marshall Plan; 2. Paths to plenty: European recovery planning and the American policy compromise; 3. European union or middle kingdom: Anglo-American formulations, the German problem, and the organizational dimension of the ERP; 4. Strategies of transnationalism: the ECA and the politics of peace and productivity; 5. Changing course: European integration and the traders triumphant; 6. Two worlds or three: the sterling crisis, the dollar gap, and the integration of Western Europe; 7. Between union and unity: European integration and the sterling-dollar dualism; 8. Holding the line: the ECA's efforts to reconcile recovery and rearmament; 9. Guns and butter: politics and diplomacy at the end of the Marshall Plan; Conclusion America made the European way; Bibliography; Index.