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The book provides a biography of Harry Truman in chronological fashion from his birth to his rise to U.S. Senator, Vice President, and President.It follows his activities until death, exploring many of the major decisions he made as president, including his decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his meetings and confrontation with Joseph Stalin during the end of World War II ...
Joseph Anthony Imler, in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, called the book "a pleasure to read" which showcases Truman's "skill as a political strategist" and his common touch. [12] Writing in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, John M. Carroll said the book highlighted Truman's "famous temper, biting sarcasm, and considerable wit ...
Saving Freedom: Truman, The Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization, the fourth book by MSNBC Cable news host and former U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough, recounts the historic forces that navigated Harry Truman to begin America's historic battle against the threat of Soviet Communism and how a little known president built an enduring coalition that would use the Truman Doctrine to ...
6 must-read titles by the author, whose life inspired the new series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
Above all, Stimson stated that the "most terrible weapon ever known in human history" opened up "the opportunity to bring the world into a pattern in which the peace of the world and our civilization can be saved." [53] He thought the very destructiveness of the new weaponry would shatter the ages-old belief that wars could be advantageous.
Truman reiterated many of them in this address since control of the Congress had shifted in the 1948 United States elections to Truman's Democratic Party. The domestic-policy proposals that Truman offered in this speech were wide-ranging and included the following: [1] [2] federal aid to education; a tax cut for low-income earners
A few days earlier there was a presentation of the book in the Library of Congress. [6] The book has been translated into more than 17 languages, including French, [7] Chinese, [8] Serbian [9] and others. The book tells us about the life in the Pskov-Caves Monastery and about other amazing stories from the lives of ordinary people. [10]
The book gives a depiction of high-ranking churchmen, taking oaths signed with their own blood, plotting to destroy the Church from within. It tells the story of an international organized attempt by these Vatican insiders and secular internationalists to force a pope of the Catholic Church to abdicate, so that a successor may be chosen that ...