Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.918/ROLL,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593186442, 0593186443 :, 0593186443, 9780593186442
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Map by Jeffrey L. Ward"--Title page verso
Death and rebirth -- Over the rainbow -- Go all out for Truman -- Best he could do -- Unprepared -- Second coming in wrath -- Bearing the unbearable -- Had enough? -- Transformation -- Lift every voice -- Politics of 1948 -- Pour it on, Harry -- Now it's my fight -- Liberator -- Grips to the attic
"The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman, and the legacy Truman struggled to overcome to lead America into a new, post-war world."--