The Connell Short Guide to President Truman - AVAILABLE NOW!
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Harry Truman was one of the most unlikely of American presidents. Until a few months before he assumed office in April 1945 – charged first with ending the Second World War and then with managing the transition to a “Cold War” with the Soviet Union – it is unlikely he ever seriously thought about the White House. A failed businessman, he was an accidental president, taking office on the death of the popular Franklin Roosevelt, and leaving it with the lowest approval ratings of any president in the modern era. Yet today many judge him to have been a great, or nearly great, holder of the office.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-911187-67-7
Introduction
A failed haberdasher: from Independence to the White House, 1884-1945
The Cold War, 1945-1948
Why did Truman drop the atomic bomb?
The whistlestop campaign, 1948 28
The Fair Deal
Korea and McCarthy, 1949-1953
Harry Truman and the historians
NOTES
Five facts about Harry S. Truman
Chronology
Bibliography
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