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04793aam a22005658i 4500 001 7177D650542A11ED8B3B8C862AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221025010045 008 220207t20222022meuaf db 000 0beng 010 $a 2022005242 020 $a 1432899422 020 $a 9781432899424 035 $a (OCoLC)1295617826 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d INO $d BKL $d IHY $d UAP $d JQM $d ON8 $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 10 $a E814 $b .F73 2022 082 00 $a 973.918 $2 23/eng/20220207 100 1 $a Frank, Jeffrey, $d 1942- $e author. 245 14 $a The trials of Harry S. Truman $h [large print] : $b the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953 / $c Jeffrey Frank. 246 30 $a Extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 987 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 500 $a "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 715-982). 505 0 $a Prologue The Missourian -- President Truman -- Terminal -- An Unsteady Alliance -- "The Basic Power of the Universe" -- Truman's "Conniver" -- Churchill Makes Mischief -- The Quick and the Dead -- A Season of Disharmony -- The Doctrine's Dilemma -- Wealth of a Nation -- Strange Interludes -- A Cemetery for Dead Cats -- Minority Reports -- The Frontiers of Hazard -- The Scrapper -- Office Politics -- "First Lightning" -- "A New Fanatic Faith" -- A "Border Incident" -- "The Second Hand of Destiny" -- A Meeting on a Small Island -- Mense Horribilis -- "Voice of God" -- "The Mess in Washington" -- Dubious Battles -- Bad Chemistry -- The Bitter End -- Epilogue Citizen Truman. 520 $a "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 to commit troops to fight in Korea. Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of Harry S. Truman is complex and surprising. He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one's fellow citizens, and was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans. Yet while he supported stronger civil rights laws, he never quite relinquished the deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his Midwestern rationality, he could act out of emotion, as when, in the aftermath of World War II, moved by the plight of refugees, he pushed to recognize the new state of Israel. The Truman who emerges in these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure, quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries, and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and Korea, have contributed to an indelible, and deeply human, portrait of an ordinary man suddenly forced to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities, who never lost a schoolboy's romantic love for his country, and its Constitution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Truman, Harry S., $d 1884-1972. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945-1953. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Politique et gouvernement $y 1945-1953. 600 17 $a Truman, Harry S., $d 1884-1972. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032671 650 7 $a Large type books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992678 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Presidents. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075723 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1945-1953 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033620.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20230105010109.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20221123010205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7177D650542A11ED8B3B8C862AECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search