Harry S Truman
Written with the same honesty and passion that made the first volume of Harry S. Truman's memoirs—1945: Year of Decision—so compelling, this book explores in detail the extraordinary problems the president had to face in the years after World War II.
Truman recounts the story of the explosive China situation and George Marshall's patient and brilliant handling of it—and examines the creation of the Truman Doctrine, the
...Harry S. Truman was thrust into a job he neither sought nor wanted by a call summoning him to the White House. There First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt told him that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was dead. Two hours later, with little formality, he was sworn into office. "I had come to see the president," Truman recalls in this autobiography. "Now, having repeated that simply worded oath, I myself was president."
With World War II raging in the
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