The accidental president : Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world
(2017)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/TRUMAN,H
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780544617346 (hardcover), 0544617347 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
April 12, 1945 -- The political education of Harry S. Truman -- April-May 1945 -- June-July 1945 -- Little Boy, Fat Man, and Potsdam -- Epilogue
A look at the president's tumultuous first four months in office examines the events he presided over, including the founding of the United Nations, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, and the decision to drop the bomb