Harry S. Truman

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Margaret Truman

    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 .

  • Harry S. Truman: A Life
    By Robert H. Ferrell

    Every steer could carry one hundred bushels. But apart from their ability to bring good prices and to carry corn, cows (so far as Truman was concerned) had a drawback—they were uninteresting animals, not at all like horses or mules.

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Heidi M.D. Elston

    April 12, 1945–January 20, 1949 STATE: Edward R. Stettinius James F. Byrnes (from July 3, 1945) George C. Marshall (from January 21, 1947) TREASURY: Henry Morgenthau Jr. Frederick Moore (from July 23, 1945) John W. Snyder (from June 25, ...

  • Harry S. Truman: A Life
    By Robert H. Ferrell

    ... 395 Iwo Jima, 211 Jackson, Andrew, 11, 112, 171, 176, 279 Jackson, Robert H., 302 Jackson, Samuel D., 170—71 "Jackson County: Results of County Planning" (booklet), 112 Jacobson, Bluma, 74-75, 78, 309 Jacobson, Edward, 60-61, 72, ...

  • Harry S. Truman: Fair Dealer and Cold Warrior
    By William E. Pemberton

    Traces the life and political career of the statesman from Missouri who became president of the United States following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Michael Schuman

    Truman , Harry S. Mr. Citizen . New York : Bernard Geis Associates , 1960 . Truman , Margaret . ... Where the Buck Stops : The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S ... Silver Burdett Press , 1989 . Index 110 Further Reading.

  • Harry S. Truman: The Coming of the Cold War
    By Nicole L. Anslover

    ... 100,101,116,121,124,127,148;and Morrison-Grady Plan, 70; and NATO, 119–121, 124; and National Security Act of 1947, 62, 98; and National Security Council, 62, 122; and Nuremberg Trials, 51; and NSC-68, 122–123; and Palestine, 69–71, ...

  • Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
    By Robert Dallek

    ... American Caesar, 644, 648–49. Gallup, Gallup Poll, vol. 2,989,995, 999–1000. H. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, 451–52; Hamby, Man of the People, 557–58,562; Robert H. Ferrell, ed., Off the Record (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), ...

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Margaret Truman

    His daughter paints an in-depth portrait of the politician from Missouri who, in the midst of World War II, succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States.

  • Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times
    By Brian Burnes

    Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times

  • Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States
    By George E. Stanley

    Provides a look at the childhood life, personal experiences, and professional accomplishments of the thirty-third president of the United States.

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Heidi M.D. Elston

    Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Harry S. Truman, beginning with his childhood in Lamar, Missouri.

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Robert H. Ferrell

    Each volume in the new American Presidents Reference Series is organized around an individual presidency and gathers a host of biographical, analytical, and primary source historical material that will analyze...

  • Harry S. Truman: The Coming of the Cold War
    By Nicole L. Anslover

    A biography on Harry S. Truman's presidency in the post-war era.

  • Harry S. Truman: Continuity and Change
    By Jeffery Blane Cook

    This book examines Harry S. Truman, focusing on his long road from ordinary American to president of the United States.

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Margaret Truman

    Harry S. Truman

  • Harry S. Truman: His Life on the Family Farms
    By Robert H. Ferrell

    Harry S. Truman: His Life on the Family Farms

  • Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence
    By Karin Clafford Farley

    A biography of the only President to be born in Missouri, a man who always kept in touch with his Midwestern roots, which gave him a common-sense approach to life.

  • Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
    By Robert Dallek

    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 ...

  • Harry S. Truman
    By Heidi M.D. Elston

    This biography introduces readers to Harry S. Truman including his military service, early political career, and key events from Truman's administration including World War II, the Cold War, the Marshall Plan, and the Korean War.