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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo Publisher Comments From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. Diners, bellhops, and cabbies shouted out “Hiya... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Truman by David McCullough Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America by David Pietrusza Publisher Comments The behind-the-headline true story of Harry Truman's stunning upset! Everyone knows the iconic news photo of jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing a copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” David Pietrusza goes... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Safe Haven (09 Edition) by Ronald Radosh Publisher Comments On May 14, 1948, under the stewardship of President Harry S. Truman, the United States became the first nation to recognize the State of Israel—just moments after sovereignty had been declared in Jerusalem. But it was hardly a foregone conclusion... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman by Steve Neal Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book, Eleanor and Harry sheds important light on the relationship between two giants of twentieth-century American history. While researching his previous book, Harry and Ike, Steve Neal came upon a trove of letters between... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo Publisher Comments On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It by Stephen Hunter Publisher Comments This electrifying book is the first full account of the historical day fanatical suicide-martyrs attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola viewed themselves as soldiers participating in the violent campaign... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971 by Harry S Truman Publisher Comments In this riveting collection, published for the first time, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period, as they move from an official relationship to one of candor, humor, and personal expression. Together they... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller Publisher Comments The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Truman by David McCullough Publisher Comments Biografi om den amerikanske præsident Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) og hans præsidentperioder, januar-april 1945, og efter Roosevelts død 1945-1953.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Arnold A Offner Publisher Comments "This major book is a critical revisionist portrait of Trumans personal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. . . . The importance of the scholarship, the authors careful voice of reasonable... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh Publisher Comments On May 14, 1948, under the stewardship of President Harry S. Truman, the United States became the first nation to recognize the State of Israel -- just moments after sovereignty had been declared in Jerusalem. But it was hardly a foregone conclusion... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kissinger Transcripts : the Top-secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow (99 Edition) by William (ed.) Burr Publisher Comments Considered "among the most important Cold War records to emerge thus far" by the former Beijing bureau chief of the "New York Times, The Kissinger Transcripts" gives readers the unvarnished record of Henry Kissinger's diplomacy during the Nixon years.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman by Harry S Truman Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of Margaret Truman's biography Harry S. Truman, here are the 33rd U.S. President's fascinating theories and opinions on leadership and leaders, plus his picks for the best and worst presidents--all in his bluntly honest "give-... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman by Steve Neal Publisher Comments "Eleanor and Harry -- even the title makes you want to pick up this book. That's a symbol of its value in drawing us into history....Since we know from hindsight that these two people helped to shape our world, we also understand that history is made by... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Man of the People : a Life of Harry S. Truman (95 Edition) by Alonzo L. Hamby Publisher Comments Harry S. Truman is remembered today as an icon--the plain-speaking president, "Give 'em Hell Harry," the chief executive who put "The Buck Stops Here" on his desk. But Alonzo L. Hamby shows that there was more to Truman than the pugnacious fighter so... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Presidency of Harry S. Truman (American Presidency Series) by Donald Mccoy Publisher Comments Tough, concerned, direct, occasionally vulgar, and often partisan-Harry S. Truman would never completely work himself out from the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet Truman partly commands our attention because he was the successful executor of... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Harry S. Truman by William E Pemberton Book News Annotation Appraises the Truman legacy and argues that Truman's misguided containment strategy against the Soviet Union remains the cornerstone of US policy. Paper edition $10.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Truman and the Democratic Party by Sean Savage Savage List Price $30.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Buck Stops Here Said Harry Truman by Edward J Flynn List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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