My guest on Wednesday is Barry Machado, author of In Search of a Usable Path: The Marshall Plan & Post War Reconstruction Today, and a Senior Fellow at the Marshall Foundation. Our topic will be the George C. Marshall Foundation, its past, who was George C. Marshall and what the foundation does today.

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Barry Machado received his BA in 1966 from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in American history in 1975 from Northwestern University. From 1971 until his retirement in 2005 Machado taught U.S. military and foreign affairs in the history department at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. For over twenty years he served as the Director of Research for the Marshall Undergraduate Scholarship Program at the George C. Marshall Research Library. He also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Military History. His specialties are the Cold War and American Business Abroad. Among his recent publications are History, Memory, and Holes in the Wall, in The Most Dangerous Years: The Cold War, 1953-1975 (2005); In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today (2007) and A Usable Marshall Plan, in The Marshall Plan: Lessons Learned for the 21st Century (2008) With his wife Anice, who teaches 8th grade, he lives in retirement (of sorts) in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where he continues to explore the life and times of George C. Marshall. 

                                                                         
        
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