Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world / David L. Roll.

"From Franklin Roosevelt's final days through Harry Truman's extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in U.S. history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roll, David L., 1940- (Author)
Other Authors: Ward, Jeffrey L. (Cartographer)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]
Subjects:
Truman, Harry S., > 1884-1972.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1953.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xi, 531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
How Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue: Death and rebirth
  • Over the rainbow
  • Go all out for Truman
  • Best he could do
  • Unprepared
  • Second coming in wrath
  • Bearing the unbearable
  • Had enough?
  • Transformation
  • Lift every voice
  • Politics of 1948
  • Pour it on, Harry
  • Now it's my fight
  • Liberator
  • Epilogue: Grips to the attic.