Draws on a wealth of primary sources and new information to trace the events of the 1932 Democratic Convention in Chicago, profiling the contenders who, along with FDR, campaigned on the floor and fought in back rooms for the nomination. By the author of Harry and Ike. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their deep and sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War, the rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the early Civil Rights movement. Reprint.

Product Description: Believing that Americans should understand their leadership, Harry Truman was the first American president to authorize an oral history of his life and times. In that vein, almost forty years ago, the Truman Library in the president’s native Independence, Missouri, began the daunting task of compiling the words of Truman’s contemporaries, including his senior aides, foreign policy and military advisors, political strategists, and close friends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Miracle of ’48: Harry Truman’s Major Campaign Speeches and Selected Whistle-stops is the first published collection of the public addresses Harry Truman made as he crisscrossed the United States from New York City to Los Angeles to Independence, Missouri in 1948...read more

Product Description: Between 1945 and 1952, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower worked more closely than any other two American presidents of the twentieth century; they were partners in changing America's role in the world and in responding to the challenge of a Soviet Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their deep and sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War, the rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the early civil rights movement. 25,000 first printing.

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Product Description: Wendell Willkie never held a public office, yet he nearly became President of the United States. A registered Democrat until the fall of 1939, he captured the Republican party's nomination less than a year later. It was, by all accounts, a meteoric rise - to win the nomination Willkie defeated such party stalwarts as Thomas Dewey, Robert Taft, and Arthur Vandenberg...read more