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Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times
Brian BurnesSacred Cow, to be made ready. switch and a slipper handy for In the eyes of Harry Truman, She died not long before ... "They sold it under the hammer "Well now, Mrs. Truman, without giving us any chance to you've lost Harry," Marks said.
Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman ...
Harry S. TrumanHowever, this fascinating collection of 140 amusing, angry, sarcastic, and controversial letters President Truman wrote but never mailed proves that conception wrong.
Harry S. Truman, a Study of the Missouri Democratic ...
James Tiffin Crenshaw"The Speechmaking of Harry S. Truman," a dissertation by Edward Alexander Rogge, traces Truman's development as a speaker and his use of public speaking to win office and to fulfill the responsibilities of the office which he won.
Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel
Michael T. BensonHarry S. Truman sensed something profound and meaningful in the Jewish restoration to Palestine, something which transcended other considerations.
Harry S Truman: The Economics of a Populist President
E Ray CanterberyKeywords:Harry S Truman;Bessie Wallace (Mrs Truman);the Whistle-Stop Campaign;President's Council of Econmics Advisers (CEA);Employment Act of 1946;Progressive populist;Progressivism;McCarthyism;War and peace;Democrats;Republicans;Keynesian ...
Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman
Michael J. DevineMichael. T. Benson. George M. Elsey served both presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in various administrative capacities. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard and a trained historian, Mr. Elsey first came to Washington, DC, ...
Truman
PreviewIn this riveting biography, David McCullough captures Harry S. Truman and the turbulent, historically significant times during which he served.
The Truman persuasions
Robert Underhill46, HSTL. 46. As quoted by Edward Alexander Rogge in "The Speechmaking of Harry S. Truman" (Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, 1958), p. 201. 47. Roger Edward Willson, "The Truman Committee" (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1966), p.
Harry Truman:
Margaret TrumanAs the Speaker mixed the bourbon with the right amount of water, he casually told Dad that Steve Early, the White House press secretary, had left a message, asking my father to return the call immediately. He did so without a moment's ...
The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Zachary KarabellThe Last Campaign exposes the fascinating story behind Truman’s legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for “the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was ...
Bess Truman
Margaret TrumanMargaret Truman. The first round was not encouraging. In midsummer of 1939, Senators Truman, Minton, and Guffey informally polled the Senate on the question for Majority Leader Barkley, and the result was fifty-two against repeal, ...
The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman
PreviewThe Environmental Significance of the Truman Years in Modern United States History MarkW. T. Harvey Like many historians based at a college or research university, I teach the introductory course in United States history, alternating each ...
Letters from Father: The Truman Family's Personal Correspondence
Margaret TrumanLetters between President Truman, his wife and daughter, and friends and relatives provide insight into the lives, activities, and aspirations of one of America's First Families
Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
Naomi Rogers... of Alternative Medicine in TwentiethCentury North America (New York: Routledge, 2004); Monte Poen Harry S. Truman ... the Paradox of Experimental Medicine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); Harry M. Marks “ Cortisone, ...
Truman Fires MacArthur (ebook excerpt of Truman)
David McCulloughThe story of their showdown—one of the most dramatic in U.S. history between a commander in chief and his top soldier in the field—is captured in all its detail by David McCullough in his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Truman, and ...
Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years
Allen J. MatusowFarm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years offers new insight into the creative agricultural policy which emerged, from hesitant beginnings, in Truman's second term.
Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel
Margaret TrumanMargaret Truman thrills again with Experiment in Murder, the riveting next installment in her Capital Crimes series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
Margaret TrumanMs. Truman's legendary frankness is present but so, too, is a generosity of spirit. Photos throughout. From the Hardcover edition.
Harry S Truman
Keith PruittJoin historian Keith Pruitt as he introduces the reader to this remarkable man from the heartland of America.
Margaret Truman's Own Story: Souvenir
Margaret TrumanThis is a new release of the original 1956 edition.
Music For Chameleons
Truman CapoteIn these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction.
Executive Leadership and Legislative Assemblies
PreviewThe US President's Relations with Congress LAUREN COHEN BELL 'Poor Ike', Harry S Truman is supposed to have said as he prepared to leave the White House to his successor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in early 1953. 'He'll sit here, and he'll ...
Monument to Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel
Margaret TrumanMargaret Truman brings us into the corridors of Washington power as only she can, where the end too often justifies the means, where good people are destroyed by those for whom the only goal is survival... whatever the cost.
Truman Capote: Conversations
Truman CapoteInterviews with Capote cover his writing methods, his observations on the wealthy, his outlook on life, and his feelings about the writers who influenced his work
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote
Truman Capote... I'm sure there must be a touch of tendemess left: as a child I'm sure he must've suffered very much. Strange then, isn't it, that all his values should be negative, distorted? Excuse this ranting, please. When you write Howard [Doughty] please, ...
Margaret Truman's Deadly Medicine: A Capital Crimes Novel
Margaret TrumanAs Mac, Annabel, and Brixton soon realize, no pill can ease the pain that the answers to these questions inflict on everyone in this tale of greed, betrayal--and murder.
A Companion to Harry S. Truman
PreviewThe only scholarly book dedicated exclusively to the subject of reconversion is Jack Stokes Ballard's The Shock of the Peace: Military and Economic Demobilization after World War II, published nearly 30 years ago in 1983. Stokes finds the ...
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman CapoteTruman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep ...
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