Author: Andrew NiccolPublisher: Paramount Books (UT)
ISBN: 9780792153344
Category : Feature films
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Clean typescript, no date. Film was released to theaters in 1998.
The Truman Show
Author: Andrew NiccolPublisher: Paramount Books (UT)
ISBN: 9780792153344
Category : Feature films
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Clean typescript, no date. Film was released to theaters in 1998.
The Trials of Harry S. Truman
Author: Jeffrey FrankPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501102907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic bomb and the development of far deadlier weapons; the start of the Cold War and the creation of the NATO alliance; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight a costly “limited war” in Korea. Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of Harry S. Truman is complex and surprising. He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one’s fellow citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. While he was disturbed by the brutal treatment of African Americans and came to support stronger civil rights laws, he never relinquished the deep-rooted outlook of someone with Confederate ancestry reared in rural Missouri. He was often carried along by the rush of events and guided by men who succeeded in refining his fixed and facile view of the postwar world. And while he prided himself on his Midwestern rationality, he could act out of instinct and combativeness, as when he asserted a president’s untested power to seize the nation’s steel mills. The Truman who emerges in these pages is a man with generous impulses, loyal to friends and family, and blessed with keen political instincts, but insecure, quick to anger, and prone to hasty decisions. Archival discoveries, and research that led from Missouri to Washington, Berlin and Korea, have contributed to an indelible and “intimate” (The Washington Post) portrait of a man, born in the 19th century, who set the nation on a course that reverberates in the 21st century, a leader who never lost a schoolboy’s love for his country and its Constitution.
The Accidental President
Author: Albert J. BaimePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544617347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
During the atomic, earthshaking first 120 days of Harry Truman's unlikely presidency, an unprepared, small-town man had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power--marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in American history.
Truman Speaks
Author: Harry S. TrumanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Lectures and discussions held at Columbia University on April 27, 28, and 29, 1959.
The Truth about Truman School
Author: Dori Hillestad ButlerPublisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080758097X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
2012-2013 Iowa Teen Award Master List They just wanted to tell the truth. When Zebby and Amr create the website thetruthabouttruman.com, they want it to be honest. They want it to be about the real Truman Middle School, to say things that the school newspaper would never say, and to give everyone a chance to say what they want to say, too. But given the chance, some people will say anything—anything to hurt someone else. And when rumors about one popular student escalate to cruel new levels, it's clear the truth about Truman School is more harrowing than anyone ever imagined.
Man of the People
Author: Alonzo L. HambyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Biography of the US President.
Harry S. Truman Versus the Medical Lobby
Author: Monte M. PoenPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826210864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
“I have some bitter disappointments as President,” reflected Harry Truman after leaving office, “but the one that has troubled me the most , in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat organized opposition to a national compulsory health-insurance program.” Harry S. Truman versus the Medical Lobby is a study of one aspect of Harry Truman’s domestic leadership and the political conflict it produced. In the book, author Monte Poen examines Truman’s quest for national health insurance in the light of the ongoing debate on the subject in this century. It reveals why Truman was the first president to advocate government-financed health care and why he repeatedly took the idea to Congress, despite insurmountable political obstacles.
Dear Bess
Author: Harry S. TrumanPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826212030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.
Harry and Arthur
Author: Lawrence J. HaasPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640124829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
How the bipartisan partnership of President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg revolutionized America’s foreign policy and set the course for America’s global leadership through the Cold War and beyond.
Working with Truman
Author: Ken HechlerPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826210678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback is the critically acclaimed Working with Truman, a warm and lighthearted memoir of what it was like to work behind the scenes in the White House during Truman's term as president. Focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of those who worked closely with Truman and on the Truman not seen by the public, Hechler provides insight into one of our greatest presidents.