Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-489) and indexes.
Contents:
426. Threats, friends, atom bomb, and leaving office 1 -- Chapter 2 Civil rights and 1948 presidential election 32 -- Chapter 3 World War II, Potsdam Conference, demobilization of the armed forces, cessation of hostilities, occupation of Germany, continued rationing, unemployed veterans, Easter Egg rolling at the White House, the Truman Balcony, the Marshall Plan, Sacred Cow, and death of Mother 80 -- Chapter 4 Aid to Greece and Turkey, Palestine and the birth of Israel, Churchill correspondence, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, 1948 presidential election 130 -- Chapter 5 Personal questions, suggestions, look-alikes, and "nut mail" 174 -- Chapter 6 The MacArthur firing 231 -- Chapter 7 The atom bomb 279 -- Chapter 8 Korea 327 -- Chapter 9 Joe McCarthy, Marine Corps' "propaganda machine," assassination attempt, and the Hume affair 360 -- Chapter 10 Threats, friends, atom bomb, and leaving office 426.
Summary:
Americans are not shy about letting politicians know what's on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, many believed they had a president they could level with. He even sometimes responded personally to them, especially on subjects he felt strongly about. Today, it seems remarkable that a man who described the presidency as "the most awesome job in the world" would take the time to read and respond to White House mail. But Truman had an unquenchable thirst for what his "everyday Americans" were thinking, yet he distrusted opinion polls.
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