Harry S. Truman : the economics of a populist president / E. Ray Canterbery ; Chye Shu Wen, in-house editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canterbery, E. Ray, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Truman, Harry S.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.

United States.

United States--Economic policy--1945-1960.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was also the populist President who set the political economic course for the United States to win it merely 40 years later. In this timely biography, E Ray Canterbery captures the spirit of the man, who first and foremost, was a politician who crafted political progams such as the Fair Deal program, full-employment program, New Deal program, reconversion, stabilization, and agriculture progams through th

Contents:

About the Author; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Early Years; On the Old Frontier with the Early Trumans; Born an Agrarian, Raised to be Fair; Formal High School Education in the Shadows of the "Old South"; Harry and his Father: The "Bryan Men"; War versus the Farm and Bess; 2. The Political Making of a Populist; A Brief History of US Populism; Truman: A Populist Candidate; 3. Mr Truman Goes to Washington; Roosevelt's New Deals; Background: The Jazz Age and the Great Depression; Truman: From the Farm to the Senate; Mr Vice President; 4. The Economics of War and Peace; The Potsdam Conference

Potsdam and the Atomic BombThe Spoils of War; The Recession of 1945; The Strike: The Ultimate Weapon of Labor; The Iron Curtain; Popular Culture of the 1940s; 5. The Employment Act of 1946 and the President's Council of Economic Advisers; The Full Employment Bill of 1945; The Final Employment Act of 1946; The President's Council of Economic Advisers; The Nourse Council; The Keyserling CEA: New Roles; Afterward; 6. Communism and The Truman Doctrine; The Communist "Threat" at Home; The Truman Doctrine; The Herbert Hoover Reports on European Conditions; 7. The Populist Campaign of 1948

The Warm-UpThe Berlin Airlift; The Democratic Convention; The Whistle-Stop Campaign; The Dewey Campaign; The Whistle-Stop Campaign Resumes; The Historic Election; 8. The Marshall Plan; Economic Conditions in Europe; The Russian Threat; The Plan; The Jewish State and Civil Rights; 9. Truman's Defining Test: The Korean War; The Calm Before the Storm; Popular Culture During the 1950s; General Douglas MacArthur's Strategy for "Winning" the War; Truman Fires MacArthur; The 1952 Presidential Election; 10. Afterward; Setting the Tone of an Ex-Presidency; Truman, Eisenhower, and Stevenson

Truman and John F. Kennedy's Economic PoliciesBack Home in Independence; The Truman Library in Independence; The Memoirs, At Last; Aging Along With the Bourbon; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

981-4541-84-2