Dallek, Robert.

Summary: In a reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful nations around the globe--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman--to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. The decisions of these men, for better and often for worse, had profound consequences for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

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Dallek, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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Dallek, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 2007

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Dallek, 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 DAL