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Author : Pamela K. Thorson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931791031
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Getting to Know Bess Truman written by Pamela K. Thorson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry S. Truman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826212030
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dear Bess written by Harry S. Truman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.
Author : Sara L. Sale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bess Wallace Truman written by Sara L. Sale and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sale shows how Bess Truman remade the office of the first lady to suit her own personality and along the way earned the admiration and respect of the American people. --Publisher.
Author : Clifton Truman Daniel
Publisher : Truman State Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9781935503255
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dear Harry, Love Bess written by Clifton Truman Daniel and published by Truman State Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One evening in 1955, Harry Truman came home to find Bess burning her letters to him. “What are you doing? Think of history,” he said. “Oh, I have,” she said and tossed in another stack. Bess Truman thought her business was hers and nobody else's, so she destroyed her half of the more than 2,600 letters she and Harry exchanged during their courtship and marriage. While making an inventory of the Truman home in the 1980s, archivists discovered 184 letters Bess had missed. Her grandson Clifton Truman Daniel shares them here, along with portions of Harry's responses, family photographs, and stories. These letters provide new insight into the lives and personalities of Bess and Harry Truman during the formative years of his political life. Despite Bess's shy and self-effacing manner, her lively correspondence offers a glimpse of a caring and witty woman who shared her concerns about family, politics, and day-to-day activities with her husband.
Author : Margaret Truman
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780025294707
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bess W. Truman written by Margaret Truman and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986-04-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her personal reminiscences and her parents' voluminous correspondence, the author offers an intimate portrait of her reticent mother
Author : Barbara Silberdick Feinberg
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516210001
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bess Wallace Truman written by Barbara Silberdick Feinberg and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1998 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of Bess Wallace Truman
Author : Matthew Algeo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569767076
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743260295
Total Pages : 1409 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Truman written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 1409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.
Author : Harry S. Truman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Truman Speaks written by Harry S. Truman and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures and discussions held at Columbia University on April 27, 28, and 29, 1959.
Author : Jeffrey Frank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501102907
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Trials of Harry S. Truman written by Jeffrey Frank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
