Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

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Truman

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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined -- but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

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This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions.

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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined -- but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

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My Days with Harry Truman

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In 1970, Margaret Truman and bestselling author Thomas Fleming spent eight days with her father, President Harry Truman, as part of their research for a biography of the 33rd president of the United States. Mr. Truman had personally chosen Fleming as Margaret’s collaborator. He had read and admired his biography of Thomas Jefferson, The Man From Monticello. Here’s Fleming’s memoir of that amazing time, during which the elder statesman sets the record straight on John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Douglas MacArthur, the atomic bomb, and, most important, the American presidency.

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In 1970, Margaret Truman and bestselling author Thomas Fleming spent eight days with her father, President Harry Truman, as part of their research for a biography of the 33rd president of the United States. Mr. Truman had personally chosen Fleming as Margaret’s collaborator. He had read and admired his biography of Thomas Jefferson, The Man From Monticello. Here’s Fleming’s memoir of that amazing time, during which the elder statesman sets the record straight on John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Douglas MacArthur, the atomic bomb, and, most important, the American presidency.

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Harry Truman vs The Aliens

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Pulp Legend Emerson LaSalle is back, and to introduce him to a new generation of readers, we present this short story. It's hi-powered pulp sci-fi action. Aliens are invading! Who can stop them. Harry DAMN Truman. That's who.

This short story serves as an intro to the hi-adventure pulp sci-fi tale THERE ARE ALIENS BEHIND URANUS, MR. PRESIDENT coming to a Kindle near you in May 2012.


Includes a critical introduction from Adam Openheimer, Ph.D.

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Pulp Legend Emerson LaSalle is back, and to introduce him to a new generation of readers, we present this short story. It's hi-powered pulp sci-fi action. Aliens are invading! Who can stop them. Harry DAMN Truman. That's who.

This short story serves as an intro to the hi-adventure pulp sci-fi tale THERE ARE ALIENS BEHIND URANUS, MR. PRESIDENT coming to a Kindle near you in May 2012.


Includes a critical introduction from Adam Openheimer, Ph.D.

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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America

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Indelibly, we recall the iconic newsphoto: jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing his copy of  the Chicago Tribune proclaiming "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." But far, far more exists to 1948's election that a single inglorious headline and a stunning upset victory. Award-winning author David Pietrusza goes beyond the headlines to reveal backstage events and to place in context a down-to-the-wire donnybrook fought against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, and the birth of Israel, a post-war America facing exploding storms over civil rights, and domestic communism.

It's a war for the soul of the Democratic Party with accidental president Harry Truman pitted against his embittered left-wing predecessor as vice president, Henry Wallace, and stormy young South Carolina segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. On the GOP side, it's a four-way battle between cold-as-ice New Yorker Tom Dewey, Minnesota upstart Harold Stassen, the stodgy but brilliant Ohio conservative Robert Taft, and the imperious but aged Douglas MacArthur.But Americans really want "none of the above." They do, however, "like IKE," but Dwight Eisenhower stubbornly resists draft movements in both parties to run--at least, that year.

It's an election year featuring a uniquely stellar supporting cast. Alger Hiss, Whitaker Chambers and Richard Nixon. Civil rights crusader Hubert Humphrey. GOP VP choice Earl Warren. Henry Wallace activists Paul Robeson, Lillian Hellman, and Pete Seeger. A passel of FDR kin--including Eleanor--disgusted with HST. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Clark Clifford, William O. Douglas, George C. Marshall, John Foster Dulles, Adlai Stevenson, Drew Pearson, "Landslide Lyndon" Johnson, H. L. Mencken, Harold Ickes, Clare and Henry Luce, the "Do-Nothing" 80th Congress, Curtis LeMay, Ronald Reagan, and, last, but not least, NBC's forever embarrassed H. V. Kaltenborn.

David Pietrusza achieves for 1948's presidential race what he previously did in 1960: LBJ vs JFK vs Nixon--of which Library Journal (starred review) said "raises the bar with his winning and provocative chronicle. . . . Highly recommended." Pietrusza again brings history to life, spellbinding readers with tales of the highest drama while simultaneously presenting the issues, personalities, and controversies of this pivotal era with laser-like clarity.

With 2012's crucial presidential election approaching, 1948 transforms the way readers see modern American history.

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Harry S. Truman - The Man of Independence (Biography)

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Harry S. Truman - The Man of Independence is the biography of Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953). As Vice President, Truman succeeded to the office of President upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman's presidency was eventful in foreign affairs, with the end of World War II and his decision to use nuclear weapons in combat, the founding of the United Nations, and the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. Truman was a key figure in the establishment of the Jewish state in the Palestine Mandate. Truman was also a strong supporter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). When he left office in 1953, Truman was seen as one of the most unpopular chief executives in American history. Harry S. Truman - The Man of Independence is highly recommended for those interested in learning more about the life of President Harry S. Truman.

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