Harry Truman and the Human Family,9780884964322

Harry Truman and the Human Family

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ISBN13: 9780884964322
ISBN10: 0884964329
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-09-01
Publisher(s): Capra Pr
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Summary

A former co-worker and speech writer for Harry Truman looks at the president's optimism and belief in human potential

Table of Contents

FOREWORD Every Voice Should Be Heard--Truman's Message To Us All xi
PART ONE Working Under Truman's Banner 13(176)
CHAPTER ONE A Wake-up Call from the White House
14(13)
CHAPTER TWO Working For a President Who Didn't Know He Couldn't Win
27(12)
CHAPTER THREE Truman On the Road, Arousing the People and Surprising the Press
39(13)
CHAPTER FOUR Going Beyond the New Deal--Truman Gets a Liberal Platform
52(11)
CHAPTER FIVE Truman's Transformation--He Rises High and Lifts His Party With Him
63(13)
CHAPTER SIX As the Campaign Closes, Truman Draws Huge Crowds and Victory Seems Possible
76(10)
CHAPTER SEVEN The President Stuns the Experts--And I Prepare For a New Life
86(8)
CHAPTER EIGHT In the Tide of Truman's Triumph, I Am Pulled Back to Washington
94(13)
CHAPTER NINE Inaugurated With Imperial Splendor, Truman Speaks To the World As a Humble Man
107(9)
CHAPTER TEN The Crushing of a Dream--Why the Truman Program Was Smashed In Congress
116(27)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Fear Strikes the Senate--The Rise of Joseph McCarthy
143(19)
CHAPTER TWELVE Stormy Years At Home and Abroad--The Final Phase of Truman's Presidency
162(27)
PART TWO A Meditation on Harry Truman--The Man and His Accomplishments As a President Who Foresaw a Great Future For Humanity 189(44)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Hell--Truman's Burden
190(10)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Risking War By Doing What His Mother Taught Him--How Truman Broke the Berlin Blockade
200(10)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Thinking of Future Generations--Truman's Proposal for Finding the Best Presidential Candidates
210(7)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Truman Takes a Chiding From My Mother, And Blushes When My Son Faces Him With Indignation
217(8)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A Man With Enduring Virtues--New Generations See Truman's Strength
225(8)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 233

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