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The Trials of Harry S. Truman by Jeffrey Frank
The Trials of Harry S. Truman by Jeffrey Frank
Truman is often portrayed as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner. But the man who emerges here is far more complex than the "give 'em hell" provincial who, at age sixty, suddenly inherited the White House. Jeffrey Frank reveals a self-taught man, blessed with keen political instincts, but carried along by the rush of events and inclined to make what he called "jump decisions" -- intuitive choices that bolstered a reputation for firmness but came with the risk of tragic missteps. During nearly eight years in office, Truman remained deeply, even movingly human -- insecure, patriotic, and torn between his Missouri upbringing and what he saw as a duty to support equal rights for Black Americans.
Opening a bright window onto mid-twentieth-century America -- including Truman's influential advisers, powerful columnists, and a new breed of atomic scientists -- Frank gives a close-up view of a man who never lost a schoolboy's love for his country and Constitution, a president born in the nineteenth century who set the nation on a course that continues into the twenty-first.
SIMON & SCHUSTER, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2022.
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.