The trials of Harry S. Truman: the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953
"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 weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nati...
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Zusammenfassung: | "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 weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight 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 was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans. Yet while he supported stronger civil rights laws, he never quite 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 emotion, as when, in the aftermath of World War II, moved by the plight of refugees, he pushed to recognize the new state of Israel. 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 deeply human, portrait of an ordinary man suddenly forced to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities, who never lost a schoolboy's romantic love for his country, and its Constitution." -- |
Beschreibung: | xliv, 528 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9781501102899 |
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contents | Prologue: The Missourian -- President Truman -- Terminal -- An unsteady alliance -- "The basic power of the universe" -- Truman's "conniver" -- Churchill makes mischief -- The quick and the dead -- A season of disharmony -- The doctrine's dilemma -- Wealth of a nation -- Strange interludes -- A cemetery for dead cats -- Minority reports -- The frontiers of hazard -- The scrapper -- Office politics -- "First lightning" -- "A new fanatic faith" -- A "border incident" -- "The second hand of destiny" -- A meeting on a small island -- Mense horribilis -- "Voice of God" -- "The mess in Washington" -- Dubious battles -- Bad chemistry -- The bitter end -- Epilogue: Citizen Truman |
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