The Accidental President

A hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman’s first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power—marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in American history.
Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death.
The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time.
The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.
“[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.” —Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

About the author

A.J. Baime is the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World (2017), The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War (2014), Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans (2009), and Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul (2019). Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and numerous other publications.

Product details

• Authors: A J Baime, A. J. Baime, A.J. Baime
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.10.2018
• EAN: 9781328505682
• ISBN: 978-1-328-50568-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 201 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, military history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, The Americas, Central / national / federal government, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: Military / United States, HISTORY: AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Presidents & Heads of State, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY: Europe / General, HISTORY: Asia / Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE: AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, History / 20th Century American, History / American, Political Science / American Presidency