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Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world / David L. Roll.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E813 .R65 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roll, David L., 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
- Truman, Harry S.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- monochrome
- illustration
- map
- portrait
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]
- Summary:
- "The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman, and the legacy Truman struggled to overcome to lead America into a new, post-war world."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- Grips to the attic.
- Notes:
- "Map by Jeffrey L. Ward"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-467) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0593186443
- 9780593186442
- OCLC:
- 1391130165
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