Man of the people : a life of Harry S. Truman /
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| Author / Creator: | Hamby, Alonzo L. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. |
| Description: | xv, 760 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1756017 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. "I Was Kind of a Sissy": In Search of Self, 1884-1906
- 2. "I Tried to Dig a Living Out of the Ground": J. A. Truman & Son, Farmers, 1906-1914
- 3. "My Ship's Going to Come in Yet": Misadventures in Venture Capitalism, 1915-1917
- 4. "Our Young Man Was a True Patriot": The Forge of War, 1917-1919
- 5. "June 28, 1920 One Happy Year... June 28, 1922 Broke and in a Bad Way": Family, Fraternity, and Commerce in the 1920s
- 6. "I Became a Member of a Fighting County Court": The Darwinian World of Jackson County Politics, 1922
- 7. "McElroy and I Ran the County Court and Took All the Jobs": Ideals and Realities, 1923-1924
- 8. "Enough Left for a Living": Family, Business, Service, 1925-1934
- 9. "Am I an Ethical Giant... Or Just a Crook?": Achievement and Doubt, 1926-1934
- 10. "A Tremendous Amount of Strain": Crisis and Anxiety, 1931-1934
- 11. "I Have Come to the Place Where All Men Strive to Be": Questing for the Heights, 1931-1934
- 12. "Wisdom to Serve the People Acceptably": Life in the Senate, 1935-1940
- 13. "Vultures at the Death of an Elephant": Insurgency, New Dealism, Interest Group Politics, and the Regulatory State, 1935-1940
- 14. "I'm Going to Lick that Double-Crossing, Lying Governor": Struggle for Vindication, 1937-1940
- 15. "We Saved the Taxpayers About Fifteen Billion Dollars": The Truman Committee, 1941-1944
- 16. "Looks Like I've Arrived in the Senate": Statesman and Democratic Leader, 1941-1944
- 17. "Bob, It's Truman. F.D.R.": The Vice Presidency, 1944-1945
- 18. "I Feel Like I Have Been Struck by a Bolt of Lightning": Confronting the Presidency, 1945-1947
- 19. "I Am Here to Make Decisions": Potsdam and Hiroshima, 1945
- 20. "I'm Tired Babying the Soviets": The Cold War Emerges, 1945-1946
- 21. "Being President Is Like Riding a Tiger": The Trials of Liberalism in a Conservative Age, 1945-1946
- 22. "We Must Assist Free Peoples": The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948
- 23. "A Discouraging Prospect Indeed": The Palestine Controversy and the Birth of Israel, 1945-1948
- 24. "Congress Meets - Too Bad Too": Politics, Policy, and the Eightieth Congress, 1947-1948
- 25. "He Done His Damndest": The Precampaign Campaign of 1948
- 26. "I'll Give 'Em Hell": The Campaign of 1948
- 27. "The Great White Sepulcher of Ambition": Living with the Presidency, 1945-1953
- 28. "A Fair Deal": Liberalism and the Web of Government, 1949-1950
- 29. "A Period that Will Be Eventful, Perhaps Decisive": Triumph and Travail in Foreign Relations, January 1949-June 1950
- 30. "We've Got to Stop the Sons of Bitches": Korea: The Downward Spiral Begins, June 25, 1950-April 11, 1951
- 31. "It Isn't Polls or Public Opinion Alone of the Moment that Counts. It Is Right and Wrong, and Leadership": Fighting the Tide, 1951-1952
- 32. "This Is No Time to Yield to Selfish Interests": Economic Mobilization and Corruption, 1951-1952
- 33. "I Have Served My Country Long, and I Think Efficiently and Honestly": Going Out, 1952
- 34. "I Took the Grips Up to the Attic": Old Harry, 1953-1972
- Epilogue: Who He Was, What He Did, and Why We Care.