Harry Truman and the crisis presidency
Title:
Harry Truman and the crisis presidency
Author:
Cochran, Bert, 1913-1984, author.
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Publication Information:
New York : Funk & Wagnalls, [1973]
©1973
Physical Description:
432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Struggle for the vice-presidency -- Early years -- Entry into politics -- Jackson county judge -- Senator from Pendergast -- A cockeyed Horatio Alger story -- New white house regime -- The course is changed -- Conflict at Potsdam -- Two halves of the same walnut -- From reconversion to Taft-Hartley -- The 1948 miracle -- Scandals, NATO, peace treaty with Japan -- Arms race and the bomb -- China trauma -- Intervention in Korea -- Troubles on the home front -- Trumanism and McCarthyism -- The last hurrah -- His place in the pantheon
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Format :
Book