Author Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country|s long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America|s foreign policy for generations to come. On March 12, 1947, Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of containment that would soon become known as the Truman Doctrine. That doctrine pledged that the United States would |support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.| The untested president|s policy was a radical shift from 150 years of isolationism, but it would prove to be the pivotal moment that guaranteed Western Europe|s freedom, the American Century|s rise, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.