Whistle Stop - How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, a Little Midwest

Informationen zum Autor PHILIP WHITE is a guest lecturer at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe! Kansas. He is the author of Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post. Klappentext President Harry Truman was a disappointment to the Democrats! and a godsend to the Republicans. Every attempt to paint Truman with the grace! charm! and grandeur of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a dismal failure: Truman's virtues were simpler! plainer! more direct. The challenges he faced-stirrings of civil rights and southern resentment at ho

Product details

• Authors: Philip White
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9781611684537
• ISBN: 978-1-61168-453-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education