Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953 Dallek Robert
Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953 Dallek Robert The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the…
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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953 Dallek Robert
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth centuryIn April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Truman would surprise them all.Few chief executives have had so lasting an impact. Many believed he would be overmatched by the job, but Harry S.
Dewey.Robert Dallek, the bestselling biographer of John F. Truman ushered America into the nuclear age, established the alliances and principles that would define the cold war and the national security state, started the nation on the road to civil rights, and won the most dramatic election of the twentieth century--his 1948 "whistlestop campaign" against Thomas E. Kennedy and Lyndon B.
Johnson, shows how this