The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World Baime A. J.
" A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times "A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This…
Specifikacia The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World Baime A. J.
" A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times "A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color."--Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo CompanyHeroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR's fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR's sudden death. The first four months of Truman's administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in
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