Product Description: Book: American politics/history

Highlights from Harry S. Truman's personal diaries, memoranda, and letters reveal his own peppery personality and refreshingly frank, zestful insights into the politics and personalities he dealt with from 1945 to 1971

Product Description: Letters Home by Harry Truman is a fascinating collection of colorful letters and "diary notes" by Truman, all compiled and edited by Monte Poen. The letters, gathered from many sources, include missives sent by Truman to his daughter, his mother and sister, his cousins, and of course his wife, Bess...read more

Product Description: The 135 selections from Harry S Truman's speeches and writings presentedin this volume resound with practical wisdom, determination, andearthy humor. Chosen and introduced by a renowned Truman scholar,the collection focuses on the themes of politics and leadership, humanrights, war and peace, on being an ordinary man, and on giving 'em hell...read more

This new volume of selections from Truman's speeches and writings reflects his unique blend of practical wisdom and earthy humor as he sets forth his views on politics, leadership, civil rights, and war and peace

Product Description: Book by Elbaum, Sandra, Truman, Harry S.

Offers the late president's candid reflections on his office and leadership, his predecessors, politics and government in America, and his ever-controversial decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

Product Description: CD features 12 speeches given by Harry S. Truman. Included are his comments on the Victory in Europe and Japan, the Atomic Bomb, Inaugural Address, U.S. policy in Asia, his farewell address and more.

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The inimitable Harry Truman discusses his presidency, the Truman Doctrine, Israel, post-war policy, NATO, the 1948 election, and General MacArthur, in selected rare recordings derived from a question-and-answer television series. Reissue.

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Product Description: Alex Ayres' latest volume in the acclaimed Wit and Wisdom series, The Wit And Wisdom Of Harry S. Truman, features memorable quotations, quips, and comments by one of our most outspoken presidents. Quotations are arranged alphabetically by subject, with a brief year-by-year history of Truman's life, and the best things said about him during his presidency...read more

Product Description: The words of a politician who knew his own mind and wasn't afraid to speak it, this volume truly captures the sprit of "Give 'em Hell" Harry, with the excerpts of letters, speeches, diary entries, even anecdotes that reveal this special man and his time.

Product Description: This volume presents over 100 letters, all with some reference to music, written by Harry S. Truman. The letters trace the life of Harry Truman from the perspective of music, and reveal Truman's passion for music, his tastes and insight and his goodwill...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In his eight years as president from 1945-1953, Harry S. Truman made some of the most important decisions in U.S. history, particularly in foreign policy matters. This book contains transcripts of conversations with Truman from taped interviews in 1959. The probing questions and straightforward answers cover a wide variety of domestic and foreign policy issues ranging from civil rights in the South to using the atomic bomb on Japan. This book provides a vivid portrait of Truman, 'warts and all.' Through his answers to questions, the threads of his political loyalty, bluntness, frustration, decency, thrift, humanity, and humor become a tapestry of his presidential character. His intense pride and manner surface especially as he explains bitter political and domestic controversies, as well as foreign policy decisions. These interviews reveal Truman's bedrock foundation of deeply held political beliefs as he gives thoughtful answers to queries about major political issues. In addition, he discusses American presidential history; Congressmen such as Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson; Supreme Court Justices; and dozens of other well-known political leaders, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy. In similar fashion, he describes numerous foreign leaders, including Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek. Evident as well is his firm loyalty to the United States, his family, his friends, and the Democratic Party. Truman also divulges some of his personal dislikes, particularly of political opponents such as Richard M. Nixon and, for over a decade after 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower. However, his personal resentments are more than matched by his fair-minded judgments of former President Herbert Hoover, American farmers, laborers, and racial groups. Discovered by Ralph Weber at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, the interviews were originally to be used as background for Truman's book, Mr. Citizen (1960), but most of Truman's obs (view table of contents)

Examines the life and career of the U.S. president, famous for his role in World War II, including the decision to drop the atomic bomb

A collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their deep and sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War, the rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the early civil rights movement. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Letters Home by Harry Truman is a fascinating collection of colorful letters and “diary notes” by Truman, all compiled and edited by Monte Poen. The letters, gathered from many sources, include missives sent by Truman to his daughter, his mother and sister, his cousins, and of course his wife, Bess...read more

Product Description: Miracle of ’48: Harry Truman’s Major Campaign Speeches and Selected Whistle-stops is the first published collection of the public addresses Harry Truman made as he crisscrossed the United States from New York City to Los Angeles to Independence, Missouri in 1948...read more

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