Each volume in the new American Presidents Reference Series is
organized around an individual presidency and gathers a host of
biographical, analytical, and primary source historical material
that will analyze the presidency and bring the president, his
administration, and his times to life. The series focuses on key
moments in U.S. political history as seen through the eyes of the
most influential presidents to take the oath of office. Unique
headnotes provide the context to data, tables and excerpted primary
source documents. Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884. He served
with distinction during World War I as a commander of an artillery
battery, and he ultimately attained the rank of major. In 1922,
with the support of political boss Tom Pendergast, Truman was
elected as a county judge. He lost reelection, but then won again
as presiding judge in 1926 and 1930. In 1934 Truman was elected to
the U.S. Senate, where he supported President Franklin Roosevelt's
New Deal policies and entry into World War II. When Vice President
Henry Wallace alienated Democratic Party leaders, Truman was
nominated for vice president. On April 12, 1945, eighty-two days
into Truman's vice presidency, Roosevelt died in Warm Springs,
Georgia. At the age of sixty-one, Truman was sworn in as the
thirty-third president of the United States. Key events during the
Truman presidency include victory in World War II and Truman's
decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, the start of the cold war
with the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, the
Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, the Fair Deal, price-control
legislation, and the McCarthy hearings. In March 1952 Truman
announced that he would not seek reelection. Harry S. Truman died
on December 26, 1972. This new volume on the presidency of Harry S.
Truman will cover campaigns, elections, and the Pendergast
connection, Senator Truman, particularly his chairmanship of the
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, FDR,
World War II, and the atomic bomb decision, Joseph McCarthy, the
cold war, and the police action in Korea, civil rights.
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