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Mar 8, 2022 · Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how so ordinary a man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century.
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- Truman by David McCullough. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters – Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson – and dramatic events.
- Harry S. Truman: A Life by Robert H. Ferrell. Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who – with modesty, commitment to service, and basic honesty – moved with method and system toward the presidency.
- Harry S. Truman by Robert Dallek. In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri.
- Man of the People by Alonzo Hamby. Insecure, ambitious, a man of honor, a partisan loyalist, an agrarian Jeffersonian Democrat who became a champion of big government, Truman was a complex figure who fought long and hard to triumph over his own weaknesses.
Oct 2, 2018 · A hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman’s first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power—marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in American history.
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Harry S. Truman Biography: The accidental president and his attempt to change the world. by Clayton E Greenough. Paperback. $1498. FREE delivery Tue, Apr 16 on $35 of items shipped by Amazon.
Mar 11, 2022 · Jeffrey Frank’s “The Trials of Harry S. Truman” recounts the great decisions of a president who was forced to overcome his limitations.
- James Traub
The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic bomb and the development of far deadlier weapons; the start of the Cold War and the creation of the NATO alliance; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the ...
Mar 8, 2022 · In The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953, veteran journalist Jeffrey Frank attempts to find a middle ground between McCullough's hagiography and Truman's naysayers.
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