Record details

• ISBN: 0393056368
• ISBN: 9780393056365
• Physical Description: xvii, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York : Norton, [1977]
• Copyright: ©1977

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: page 442.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Taking over from F.D.R. -- Call from the White House -- Honeymoon for the "Missouri gang" -- Pro-New Deal: Anti-New dealer -- The ominous rift over Poland -- "The most terrible weapon" -- V-E Day: Triumph and trouble -- Atomic bomb: The fateful momentum -- Truman, Stalin, Churchill -- The Potsdam Conference -- "Release when ready" -- Victory -- and then?

II. Postwar upheaval -- The morass of reconversion -- "Peace is hell" -- Truman and the military -- The Trumans at home -- The Hurley Affair: an omen -- The beginning of the end for Byrnes -- 1946: A disastrous year begins -- Ickes quits -- Sharp turn toward the Cold War -- Building on sand: The Baruch Plan -- One way to handle a rail strike -- The firing of Henry Wallace -- The Beefsteak Election of 1946 -- Showdown with John L. Lewis -- The unraveling of the old order.

III. Cold War -- 1947: The Eightieth Congress convenes -- China mission fails: Marshall Secretary of State -- Crisis in Europe -- The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan -- The misguided loyalty program -- Taft-Hartley: Truman on the offensive -- CIA -- Palestine -- The historic civil rights report -- Wallace declares.

IV. 1948 -- A stormy beginning -- Czechoslovakia and the Berlin Blockade -- Truman and the State of Israel -- The liberals versus Truman -- A president comes out fighting -- Whistle stop -- Incredible victory.

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
World politics > 1945-1955.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.