Author: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman)
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Harry S. Truman
Author: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Reapers
Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501122673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"With an exlusive new introduction from the author"--Cover.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501122673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"With an exlusive new introduction from the author"--Cover.
Harry S. Truman Home
Author: Sarah Olson
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, Volume 3
Author: Truman, Harry S.
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1949, Volume 5
Author: Truman, Harry S.
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
The Trials of Harry S. Truman
Author: Jeffrey Frank
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501102907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. 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 wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight a costly “limited war” in Korea. Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of Harry S. Truman is complex and surprising. He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one’s fellow citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. While he was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans and came to support stronger civil rights laws, he never relinquished the deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his Midwestern rationality, he could act out of instinct and combativeness, as when he asserted a president’s untested power to seize the nation’s steel mills. The Truman who emerges in these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure, quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries, and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and Korea, have contributed to an indelible and “intimate” (The Washington Post) portrait of a man, born in the 19th century, who set the nation on a course that reverberates in the 21st century, a leader who never lost a schoolboy’s love for his country and its Constitution.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501102907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. 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 wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight a costly “limited war” in Korea. Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of Harry S. Truman is complex and surprising. He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one’s fellow citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. While he was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans and came to support stronger civil rights laws, he never relinquished the deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his Midwestern rationality, he could act out of instinct and combativeness, as when he asserted a president’s untested power to seize the nation’s steel mills. The Truman who emerges in these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure, quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries, and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and Korea, have contributed to an indelible and “intimate” (The Washington Post) portrait of a man, born in the 19th century, who set the nation on a course that reverberates in the 21st century, a leader who never lost a schoolboy’s love for his country and its Constitution.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1951, Volume 7
Author: Truman, Harry S.
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 162376128X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 162376128X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1950, Volume 6
Author: Truman, Harry S.
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1952-1953, Volume 8
Author: Truman, Harry S.
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623761298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Harry S Truman Dam and Reservoir Construction, Osceola
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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