{"product_id":"the-trials-of-harry-s-truman-the-extraordinary-presidency-of-an-ordinary-man-1945-1953-paperback","title":"The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Frank\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eIke and Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, returns with the \"beguiling\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 bomb and the development of far deadlier weapons; the start of the Cold War and the creation of the NATO alliance; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight a costly \"limited war\" in Korea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistorians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in \u003ci\u003eThe Trials of Harry S. Truman\u003c\/i\u003e is complex and surprising. He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one's fellow citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. While he was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans and came to support stronger civil rights laws, he never relinquished the deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his Midwestern rationality, he could act out of instinct and combativeness, as when he asserted a president's untested power to seize the nation's steel mills. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Truman who emerges in these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure, quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries, and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and Korea, have contributed to an indelible and \"intimate\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) portrait of a man, born in the 19th century, who set the nation on a course that reverberates in the 21st century, a leader who never lost a schoolboy's love for his country and its Constitution.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Frank was a senior editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the deputy editor of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's Outlook section, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eIke and Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published four novels, among them the Washington Trilogy--\u003ci\u003eThe Columnist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bad Publicity\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Trudy Hopedale\u003c\/i\u003e--and is the coauthor, with Diana Crone Frank, of a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen stories, which won the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48032431702264,"sku":"9781501102905","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/KzNZb3BSWncxbEtXYnd3NTdPL0tBQT09.webp?v=1772441715","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-trials-of-harry-s-truman-the-extraordinary-presidency-of-an-ordinary-man-1945-1953-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}