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Another Such Victory President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953


Free Download Arnold offner, "Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953"
English | 2002 | pages: 654 | ISBN: 0804742545, 0804747741 | PDF | 12,9 mb
This book is a provocative, forcefully argued, and thoroughly documented reassessment of President Truman’s profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that throughout his presidency, Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward détente. Instead, he promoted an ideology and politics of Cold War confrontation that set the pattern for successor administrations.

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Truman


Free Download Truman by David McCullough
English | June 14, 1993 | ISBN: 0671869205 | 1120 pages | PDF | 104 Mb
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

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Ascent to Power How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World


Free Download Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll
English | with Keith McFarland | ISBN: 0593186443 | 544 pages | PDF | 22 Mb
From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history.

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Truman


Free Download Truman by David McCullough
English | August 20th, 2003 | ISBN: 0671869205 | 1120 pages | True EPUB | 97.35 MB
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

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Ascent to Power How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World


Free Download Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0593186443 | 544 pages | True EPUB | 18.19 MB
From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history.

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Tiny Terror Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers


Free Download Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers By William Todd Schultz
2011 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0199752044 | PDF | 1 MB
Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote’s last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his "swans." When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled–disgraced, depressed, and all but friendless. In Tiny Terror, a new volume in Oxford’s Inner Lives series, William Todd Schultz sheds light on the life and works of Capote and answers the perplexing mystery–why did Capote write a book that would destroy him? Drawing on an arsenal of psychological techniques, Schultz illuminates Capote’s early years in the South–a time that Capote himself described as a "snake’s nest of No’s"–no parents to speak of, no friends but books, no hope, no future. Out of this dark childhood emerged Capote’s prominent dual life-scripts: neurotic Capote, anxious, vulnerable, hypersensitive, expecting to be hurt; and Capote the disagreeable destroyer, emotionally bulletproof, nasty, and bent on revenge. Schultz shows how Capote would strike out when he felt hurt or taken for granted, engaging in caustic feuds with Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and many other writers. And Schultz reveals how this tendency fed into Answered Prayers, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly disguised roman a clef that trashed his high-society friends. What emerges by the end of this book is a cogent, immensely insightful portrait of an artist on the edge, brilliantly but self-destructively biting the jet-set hands that fed him. Anyone interested in the inner life of one of America’s most fascinating literary personalities will find this book a revelation.

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Ascent to Power How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CF6Q2ZJX | 2024 | 20 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 579 MB
Author: David L. Roll
Narrator: Mark Bramhall

From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic bosses and reluctantly picked Senator Truman as his vice president, a man he barely knew. Upon FDR’s death in April 1945, Truman, after only 82 days as VP, was thrust into the presidency. Utterly unprepared, he faced the collapse of Germany, a Europe in ruins, the organization of the UN, a summit with Stalin and Churchill, and the question of whether atomic bombs would be ready for use against Japan. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was growing increasingly hostile towards US power.

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Man of the People A Life of Harry S. Truman


Free Download Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman by Alonzo L. Hamby
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0195045467 | 800 Pages | PDF | 13.2 MB
Harry S. Truman is remembered today as an icon-the plain-speaking president, "Give ’em Hell Harry," the chief executive who put "The Buck Stops Here" on his desk.

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Truman and the Bomb The Untold Story


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English | August 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1640120734 | 302 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman’s critics and his supporters, and force historians to reexamine what they think they know about the end of the Pacific War.

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