Harry S. Truman The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
Harry S. Truman The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
- ISBN 13:
9780805069389
- ISBN 10:
0805069380
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 09/02/2008
- Publisher: Times Books
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Author Biography
Read moreRobert Dallek is the author of several bestselling presidential histories, including Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963; and the classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant. He has taught at Columbia, Oxford, UCLA, Boston University, and Dartmouth, and has won the Bancroft Prize, among numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
Read moreEditor's Note | p. xv |
Preludes | p. 1 |
Ending the War and Planning the Peace | p. 19 |
The Worst of Times | p. 35 |
Politician and Statesman | p. 51 |
Against All Odds | p. 68 |
Cold War President | p. 84 |
Miseries at Home and Abroad | p. 100 |
Lost Credibility | p. 116 |
Last Hurrahs | p. 131 |
Epilogue | p. 146 |
Notes | p. 155 |
Milestones | p. 165 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 171 |
Index | p. 175 |
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