Β Harryβs Farewell confronts the biggest issue of Truman historiography: the historical significance of Harry S. Trumanβs presidency. Exploring the subject from the point of view of Trumanβs Farewell Address of January 15, 1953, the book begins by describing the preparation of the address itself by t
The Accidental President: Harry S Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Category
- Fiction
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With Franklin Roosevelt's death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. Working in strong bipartisan fashion at a bitterly partisan time, they crafted a dramatic new foreign policy through which
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This biography of Harry S. Truman takes us from his taking over from F.D.R. to the postwar upheaval, from the Cold War to 1948.
<p><B>The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely, small-town Washington outsider had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.</B><BR /> Heroes are often defined as ordinary cha
"These were the flaming months in which Russia broke the back of the German Army, beginning with the successful defense of Moscow and ending with the successful defense of Stalingrad. Lesueur was in Russia then, and he tells us how the Russians lived, fought, worked, and thought during that period."