Research Catalog

Title

Conflict and crisis : the presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 / Robert J. Donovan.

Author

Donovan, Robert J.

Publication

Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 1996.

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Details

Description

xvii, 473 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Give 'em hell Harry series

Uniform Title

Give 'em hell Harry series

Alternative Title

Conflict & crisis

Subject

• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• Geschichte 1945-1948
• 1945-1955
• World politics > 1945-1955
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953

Note

• Originally published: New York : Norton, c1977.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [442]-459) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Call from the White House -- 2. Honeymoon for the "Missouri Gang" -- 3. Pro-New Deal: Anti-New Dealer -- 4. The Ominous Rift over Poland -- 5. "The Most Terrible Weapon" -- 6. V-E Day: Triumph and Trouble -- 7. Atomic Bomb: The Fateful Momentum -- 8. Truman, Stalin, Churchill -- 9. The Potsdam Conference -- 10. "Release When Ready" -- 11. Victory -- and Then? -- 12. The Morass of Reconversion -- 13. "Peace Is Hell" -- 14. Truman and the Military -- 15. The Trumans at Home -- 16. The Hurley Affair: An Omen -- 17. The Beginning of the End for Byrnes -- 18. 1946: A Disastrous Year Begins -- 19. Ickes Quits -- 20. Sharp Turn toward the Cold War -- 21. Building on Sand: The Baruch Plan -- 22. One Way to Handle a Rail Strike -- 23. The Firing of Henry Wallace -- 24. The Beefsteak Election of 1946 -- 25. Showdown with John L. Lewis -- 26. The Unraveling of the Old Order -- 27. 1947: The Eightieth Congress Convenes -- 28. China Mission Fails: Marshall Secretary of State -- 29. Crisis in Europe -- 30. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan -- 31. The Misguided Loyalty Program -- 32. Taft-Hartley: Truman on the Offensive -- 33. CIA -- 34. Palestine -- 35. The Historic Civil Rights Report -- 36. Wallace Declares -- 37. A Stormy Beginning -- 38. Czechoslovakia and the Berlin Blockade -- 39. Truman and the State of Israel -- 40. The Liberals versus Truman -- 41. A President Comes Out Fighting -- 42. Whistle-Stop -- 43. Incredible Victory.

ISBN

082621066X

LCCN

^^^96011937^

OCLC

• 34410297
• SCSB-12681796

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library