Truman
by David McCullough
Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David
McCullough not only captures the man — a more complex, informed, and determined
man than ever before imagined — but also the turbulent times in which he
rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve
as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's
story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful
Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign
of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at
Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly
discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own
family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply
moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps
the most courageous president in our history. The Publisher
Paperback - 1117 pages Reprint edition (June 1993)
Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0671869205 |
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Harry
Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks
by Michael R. Gardner, et al
Hardcover: 320 pages
Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0809324253; (April
2002)
A
Cross of Iron : Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security
State, 1945-1954
by Michael J. Hogan
(Paperback - January 2001)
A
Cross of Iron : Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security
State, 1945-1954
by Michael J. Hogan
Hardcover - 541 pages (October 1998)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 052164044X
Harry
and Ike : The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World
by Steve Neal
Paperback: 368 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x
8.50 x 5.52
Publisher: Touchstone Books; ; (September 2002)
ISBN: 0743223748
In
the Shadow of FDR : From Harry Truman to George W. Bush
by William E. Leuchtenburg
(Paperback - November 2001)
Another
Such Victory : President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 (Stanford Nuclear
Age Series (Cloth))
by Arnold A. Offner
Hardcover: 632 pages
Stanford Univ Pr; ISBN: 0804742545; (March 2002)
The
Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality (Give'Em Hell Harry
Series)
Paperback - 224 pages Reprint edition (March 1997)
University of Missouri Press; ISBN: 0826211186
Conflict
and Crisis : The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 (Give
'Em Hell Harry Series)
by Robert J. Donovan
Paperback - 473 pages Reprint edition (March 1996)
University of Missouri Press; ISBN: 082621066X
Drawing
the Line : The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949
by Carolyn Eisenberg
In this fresh and challenging study of the origins of the Cold War,
Professor Eisenberg traces the American role in dividing post-war Germany.
Drawing upon original documentary sources, she explores how U.S. policy-makers
chose partition and mobilized reluctant West Europeans behind that approach.
The book casts new light on the Berlin blockade, demonstrating that the
United States rejected United Nations mediation and relied on its nuclear
monopoly as the means of protecting its German agenda. The Publisher
Paperback - 350 pages Reprint edition (April 1998)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521627176
Berlin in the Balance, 1945-1949 : The Blockade, the Airlift, the
First Major Battle of the Cold War
by Thomas Parrish
Listed under Cold War
A
Constructed Peace : The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963
(Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by Marc Trachtenberg
"A powerful, original, and engaging work. Marc Trachtenberg has woven
together an enormous array of evidence and information, much of it only
recently available to researchers, into a compelling interpretation of
an extremely important historical period. Trachtenberg's book is broad
as well as deep, and its implications for our understanding of the dynamics
of the Cold War extend well beyond the period it examines."--Aaron L. Friedberg,
Princeton University
Paperback - 448 pages (April 1999)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691002738
Dear
Bess : The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959 (Give 'Em
Hell Harry Series)
by Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (Editor)
Paperback - 608 pages Reprint edition (August 1998)
University of Missouri Press; ISBN: 0826212034
Harry
S. Truman
by Nancy Skarmeas (Editor)
Hardcover - 80 pages (September 1996)
Ideals Publications Inc.; ISBN: 0824940784
Harry
S. Truman (United States Presidents)
by Michael A. Schuman
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Library Binding - 112 pages (April 1997)
Enslow Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 0894908332
Harry
S. Truman : A Life (Missouri Biography)
by Robert H. Ferrell
Paperback Reprint edition (January 1996)
University of Missouri Press; ISBN: 0826210503
Harry
S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency
by Robert H. Ferrell
Hardcover (January 1998)
Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0673393372
Prompt and Utter Destruction : President Truman and the Use of Atomic
Bombs Against Japan
by J. Samuel Walker
Listed under Atomic Bomb
The Truman Presidency
(Woodrow Wilson Center Series)
Michael J. Lacey (Editor)
Written by leading authorities in the fields of the contemporary social,
political, and diplomatic history of the United States, the essays in this
volume provide a wide-ranging overview of the intentions, achievements,
and failures of the Truman administration. Divided into sections on domestic
politics and issues, and foreign policy and national defense, the volume
sets forth an authoritative appraisal of some of the major events and problems
of the time in light of recent scholarship. The essays make clear the overriding
importance of the wartime experience for the Truman era and demonstrate
the influence of the era on today's political economy in both its national
and international aspects. The Publisher
Paperback Reprint edition (July 1991)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521407737
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Growing Up With My Grandfather : Memories of Harry S. Truman
by Margaret Truman, Clifton Daniel
Hardcover - 228 pages (May 1995)
Birch Lane Pr; ISBN: 155972286X
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Harry S. Truman and the Bomb : A Documentary History
by Robert H Ferrell (Editor)
Hardcover - 136 pages (July 1996)
High Plains Pub Co; ISBN: 1881019128
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