most important was the retirement of Secretary of State General George C. Marshall , after a serious kidney operation , and his replacement by Dean Acheson . I was very sorry to see General Marshall leave our official family .
During the atomic, earthshaking first 120 days of Harry Truman's unlikely presidency, an unprepared, small-town man had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power--marking the most dramatic rise to ...
Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times
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 ...
Provides a look at the childhood life, personal experiences, and professional accomplishments of the thirty-third president of the United States.
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" Robert J. Donovan's Tumultuous Years presents a detailed account of Harry S. Truman's presidency from 1949-1953. 'A fitting sequel to a fine first volume.
“I have some bitter disappointments as President,” reflected Harry Truman after leaving office, “but the one that has troubled me the most in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat organized opposition to a national compulsory ...
The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman is a compilation of autobiographical writings composed by Truman between 1934 and 1972. Taken directly from his own manuscript material, the volume presents the...
Truman's Crises: A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman
Traces the thirty-third president's unlikely rise to power and his role in bringing America into the nuclear age, in a portrait that covers such topics as his perspectives on civil rights and labor, his clashes with Douglas MacArthur over ...