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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 ...
The book also includes previously unpublished writing by Truman on the 1945 Potsdam Conference, when Truman, Stalin and Churchill met to discuss the postwar world order. Truman writes about domestic politics as well, such as his early support and later disappointment with Adlai Stevenson's 1952 presidential candidacy, and a terse apology to ...
Pages in category "Books about Harry S. Truman" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Choosing ...
The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2392-9. Theoharis, Athan. The Truman Presidency: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the National Security State (1979). Wainstock, Dennis D. Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean ...
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, as he was vice president at the time.
Harry S. Truman: A Life is a 1994 biography of Harry S. Truman, [1] president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, by historian Robert Hugh Ferrell.Although it was overshadowed by the popular success of David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography Truman, Ferrell's book was widely praised by scholars in his field.
Ferrell, a professor emeritus at Indiana University, was widely considered the preeminent authority on the history of the Truman administration. [3] [4] A prolific author who produced more than 60 books in his lifetime, Ferrell devoted particular attention to Truman, writing or editing more than a dozen books on his life and presidency, including the 1994 biography Harry S. Truman: A Life [5 ...
In 2024 he also published a fully updated second edition of the late Max Vreede’s classic 1971 discography Paramount 12000/13000 series. Van Rijn received ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) awards for Roosevelt's Blues (1997) and The Texas Blues of Smokey Hogg (2021). In 2015 he was awarded a "lifetime achievement" KBA (Keeping ...