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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 DONBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: A look at the president's tumultuous first four months in office examines the events he presided over, including the founding of the United Nations, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, and the decision to drop the bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BAIDallek, Robert.
Summary: The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, Harry S. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMAN, HARRY DALKlara, Robert.
Summary: "In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president's home where he was buried. It passed with darkened windows; few gave thought to what might be happening aboard. A closer look inside the train, however, would reveal a Soviet spy about to leak a state secret, a newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2010