I’ve discovered that in order to write my discourse, I need this question answered: Why did the Marshall Plan work? (Did it work?) So, I’ve checked out two very large books on the subject from the public library. At this point, I probably will not finish my discourse by the end of summer, as I had previously planned, but I should be a good way through it. The reason it’s taking so long is that it’s turning out radically different from how I originally imagined it. The discourse will be junk if I have no historical evidence to back me up. I need this Marshall Plan question answered. It’s extremely important to forming my ideology on foreign policy.