Harry's farewell : interpreting and teaching the Truman presidency / edited with an introduction by Richard S. Kirkendall.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kirkendall, Richard Stewart, 1928-
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2004], ©2004.
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Physical Description:xv, 381 pages L : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Harry's farewell address and the historical significance of the Truman presidency / Richard S. Kirkendall
  • The politics of democracy : Harry S. Truman and the American people / Alonzo L. Hamby
  • Economic prosperity, security, and equality : Harry Truman's farewell claims and presidential achievements / Robert M. Collins
  • Clutching at civil rights straws : a reappraisal of the Truman years and the struggle for African American citizenship / Carol Anderson
  • President Harry S. Truman's farewell address and the atomic bomb : the high price of secrecy / Richard B. Frank
  • Harry S. Truman, history, and internationalism : the 1953 farewell address and U.S. foreign relations / Mary Ann Heiss
  • Truman and Korea : an assessment of presidential performance / William Stueck
  • The Truman prophecy / Randall B. Woods
  • "A very dangerous course" : Harry S. Truman and the red scare / Ellen Schrecker
  • Behind the silences : challenges to the gender status quo during the Truman years / Susan M. Hartmann
  • Harry Truman, immigration, and ethnicity at an imperial moment / Rachel Ida Buff
  • A legacy in concrete : the Truman presidency transforms America's environment / Karl Brooks
  • Using the farewell address to teach the Truman presidency / Jeff Gall
  • Harry Truman : a biographer's perspective I / Robert H. Ferrell
  • Harry Truman : a biographer's perspective II / Alonzo L. Hamby.