Gardner, Michael R.

Summary: Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up--the border state of Missouri--segregation was accepted and largely unquestioned. Both his maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves, and his beloved mother, victimized by Yankee forces, railed against Abraham Lincoln for the remainder of her ninety-four years. When Truman assumed the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Illinois University Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9189 GAR

Elston, Heidi M. D.

Summary: This biography introduces readers to Harry S. Truman including his military service, early political career, and key events from Truman's administration including World War II, the Cold War, the Marshall Plan, and the Korean War. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRU

Saffer, Barbara.

Summary: A biography of the thirty-third president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TRU SAF

Summary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRE

Bunker, Nick

Summary: "At the midpoint of the twentieth century, Sir Winston Churchill called the United States "this gigantic capitalist organization, with its vast and superabundant productive power." The dollar reigned supreme and Pittsburgh and Detroit were at the summit of their power and prestige. From Washington, American statesmen sought to guide the destiny of nations. Victorious in the elections of 1948,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73009 BUN

Brands, H. W.

Summary: "From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 BRA

Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)

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 BAI

Lehrer, Jim.

Summary: In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroad's famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known as "The Train of the Stars." And so we find it in April of 1956, embarking from Chicago for its trip across the Plains to the West Coast. Passengers include former president Harry Truman and actor Clark Gable. But as the train gains speed, a series of deadly events unfolds.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

Scarborough, Joe

Summary: "The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 SCA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.9180 SCA

Beschloss, Michael R.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 Besch

Drummond, Steve

Summary: "Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight--all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DRU

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Summary: Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 ROO

Klara, 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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 KLA

Summary: President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRU

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

McCullough, David G.

Summary: Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 TRU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMAN, HARRY McC

Beschloss, Michael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5314 BES

Mallon, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Frank, Jeffrey

Summary: "The nearly eight years of Harry Truman's presidency--among the most turbulent in American history--were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMAN, HARRY S. FRA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TRUMAN FRA

McCullough, David G.

Summary: A biography of the U.S. president explores Truman's brutal frontier childhood, his education, his dogged optimism, and his rise through the ranks of the Pendergast machine that controlled Missouri politics.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2001

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TRU

Donovan, Robert J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1977

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 DON

Truman, Harry S.

Contents: v. 1. Year of decisions.--v. 2. Years of trial and hope.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1955

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 TRU