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5) The best year of their lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948 ; learning the secrets of power
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2010, c2001
Language
English
Description
Sara Smythe, an independent young woman just starting to make her way in Manhattan in 1945, meets Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from Germany, at her brother Eric's Thanksgiving Eve party, and the choices they make after that chance meeting have long-lasting consequences for them and their loved ones.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A biography of President Harry S. Truman, covering his childhood, his military career, and his political career, and focusing on his crucial role and his enduring legacy as principal architect of the American post-World War II world.
Author
Publisher
Lucknow Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. These fascinating diaries begin in 1944 shortly after James Forrestal became Secretary of the Navy, and end with his resignation in March 1949 as America's first Secretary of Defense. Blunt and forceful, Forrestal reveals the American strategy that he helped shape with verve. Expertly edited by seasoned...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The 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 weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight in Korea."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Baraka Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI-with other agencies-feverishly collected "derogatory information" to undermine the renowned scientist's influence and destroy his reputation.
With material accessed under the Freedom of Information Act, Fred Jerome reveals the depth of, and the reasons for, this massive anti-Einstein campaign. He...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. Outstanding ... by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Coherent, compelling ... A skillful, authoritative investigation." -- Kirkus Reviews Award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections...
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