Harry S. Truman A Life

In this major new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who - with modesty, commitment to service, and basic honesty - moved with method and system toward the presidency. Ferrell's exhaustive research offers new perspectives on many key episodes in Truman's career, including his first Senate term and the circumstances surrounding the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. In addition, Ferrell taps many little-known sources to relate the intriguing story of the machinations by which Truman gained the vice presidential nomination in 1944.

About the author

Robert H. Ferrell (1921-2018) is the author or editor of numerous books, including Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman, Harry S. Truman: A Life, and Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I, available from the University of Missouri Press.

Summary

This is a biography of Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third President of the United States. The author highlights the origins, the youth and the steady political climb of Truman, showing that what emerged eventually was a shrewd, ambitious and committed politician.

Product details

• Authors: Robert H Ferrell, Robert H. Ferrell
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.1996
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies
• EAN: 9780826210500
• ISBN: 978-0-8262-1050-0
• Dimensions (packing): 15.8 x 23.7 x 3 cm
• Weight (packing): 726 g
• Series: Missouri biography series; Missouri Biographies (Paperbac; Missouri biography series; Give 'em Hell Harry > 1
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Biography / Autobiography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State