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The Trials of Harry S. Truman - The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 (Paperback)
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The Trials of Harry S. Truman - The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R327
Discovery Miles 3 270
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Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with
the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the
Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a
seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading
America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. The
nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most
turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars
against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic bomb and the
development of far deadlier weapons; the start of the Cold War and
the creation of the NATO alliance; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the
wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision
to commit troops to fight a costly “limited war” in Korea.
Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive,
with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of
Harry S. Truman is complex and surprising. He believed that the
point of public service was to improve the lives of one’s fellow
citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. While he
was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans and came
to support stronger civil rights laws, he never relinquished the
deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in
rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events
and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile
view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his
Midwestern rationality, he could act out of instinct and
combativeness, as when he asserted a president’s untested power
to seize the nation’s steel mills. The Truman who emerges in
these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and
family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure,
quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries,
and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and
Korea, have contributed to an indelible and “intimate” (The
Washington Post) portrait of a man, born in the 19th century, who
set the nation on a course that reverberates in the 21st century, a
leader who never lost a schoolboy’s love for his country and its
Constitution.
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