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1) Truman
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
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Formats
Description
On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman did something no other former president has done before, or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. Just Harry and Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, and celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple. Hopefully incognito.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xliv, 528 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of 24 plates : illustrations (black and white), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"The nearly eight years of Harry Truman's presidency--among the most turbulent in American history--were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight in Korea."--
4) Harry Truman
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Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Provides comprehensive information on President Harry Truman and places him within his historical and cultural context. Also explored are the formative events of his times and how he responded"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Chosen as FDR?s fourth term Vice President for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman--a Midwesterner who had no college degree and had never had the money to buy his own home--was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR?s sudden death. During the climactic months of the Second World War, Truman had to play judge and jury, pulling America to the forefront...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Primarily a contest between Truman and challenger Thomas Dewey, the 1948 presidential race offered something for everyone, including two third-party candidates (Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace), triumphant grit, tragic hubris, dangerous naiveté, accidents of fate, accusations of betrayal, foreign crises, the birth of Israel in the Middle East, a dramatic special session of Congress, internecine battles among unions and liberals, spies, extremists...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight—all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and...
9) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Formats
Description
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt?s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world?s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents?and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
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Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 342 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"The year was 1947. The Soviet Union had moved from being America's uneasy ally in the Second World War to its most feared enemy. With Joseph Stalin's ambitions pushing westward, Turkey was pressured from the east while communist revolutionaries overran Greece. The British Empire was battered from its war with Hitler and suddenly teetering on the brink of financial ruin. Only America could afford to defend freedom in the West, and the effort was spearheaded...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's...
14) The presidents
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
17 DVDs (ca. 38 hr., 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronciles the lives and accomplishments of presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
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