The Autobiography of Harry S.Truman (Häftad)
avHarry S. Truman
ISBN: 9780826214454 - UTGIVEN: 200209The 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 thoughts and feelings of the man himself. The book touches on details in Truman's life from his days a[...]
A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel (Häftad)
avAllis Radosh, Ronald Radosh
ISBN: 9780060594640 - UTGIVEN: 201004On May 14, 1948, under the stewardship of President Harry S. Truman, the United States became the first nation to recognize the State of Israel -- just moments after sovereignty had been declared in Jerusalem. But it was hardly a foregone conclusion that America would welcome the creation of this ne[...]
Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (Inbunden)
avAlonzo L. Hamby
ISBN: 9780195045468 - UTGIVEN: 1996-01-25
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
ISBN: 9780374107895 - UTGIVEN: 2019-01How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America's civil rights historyOn February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, after he challenged the bus driver's disrespect[...]
Harry S. Truman (Häftad)
avNicole L. Anslover
ISBN: 9780415895675 - UTGIVEN: 2012-10Harry S. Truman presided over one of the most challenging times in American history-the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Thrust into the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office, Truman oversaw the transition to a new, post-war world in which the United States wielded [...]
Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President 1945-1953 (Häftad)
avMike Venezia, Mike Venezia
ISBN: 9780531179468 - UTGIVEN: 200709
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780544617346 - UTGIVEN: 2017-10The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into ex[...]
Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States (Häftad)
avGeorge E. Stanley, Meryl Henderson
ISBN: 9780689862472 - UTGIVEN: 200405This fascinating biography details the childhood of Harry S. Truman, a veteran of World War I who was elected as senator in 1934 and became President during World War II--and had to make some of the most crucial decisions in history. Illustrations.[...]
The Presidency of Harry S. Truman (Häftad)
avDonald R. McCoy
ISBN: 9780700602551 - UTGIVEN: 1986-01Tough, concerned, direct, occasionally vulgar, and often partisan--Harry S. Truman would never completely work himself out from the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet Truman partly commands our attention because he was the successful executor of Roosevelt's remarkable political estate. It is n[...]
Harry S. Truman (Inbunden)
avRobert Dallek, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sean Wilentz
ISBN: 9780805069389 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth centuryIn April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. M[...]
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World (häftad)
ISBN: 9781328505682 - UTGIVEN: 2018-10" A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
"A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color."--Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo C[...]
Harry S. Truman
ISBN: 9781680781199 - UTGIVEN: 2016-08- Historic Photographs
- Primary Source Documents
- Timeline
- Fast Facts
- Benefits and Perks
- Chart of All Presidents' Terms[...]
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (övrigt)
ISBN: 9781721339914 - UTGIVEN: 2018-08"No one will ever study or write about the time of Truman again without a bow of gratitude to Merle Miller. Never has a president of the United States, or any head of state for that matter, been so totally revealed, so completely documented." (Robert A. Arthur) Plain Speaking is a book based on conv[...]
Harry S. Truman (Inbunden)
avE. Ray (EDT) Canterbery
ISBN: 9789814541831 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was also the populist President who set the political economic course for the United States to win it merely[...]
The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's Most Famous Residence (Häftad)
avRobert Klara
ISBN: 9781250053930 - UTGIVEN: 2014-10Critically acclaimed author Robert Klara's "The Hidden White House" leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambition and technical skill: the Truman administration's controversial rebuilding of the White House. In 1948, President Harry Truman, enjoying a bath on the White House's second[...]
