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The Korean war : a 25-year perspective.
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ISBN: 0700601570 Year: 1977

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Truman and Korea
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ISBN: 0826261310 9780826261311 0826212069 9780826212061 Year: 1999 Publisher: Columbia, Mo. University of Missouri Press

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Harry's farewell
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ISBN: 0826264220 0826215521 9780826215529 9780826264220 Year: 2004 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press


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Harry and Arthur
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ISBN: 1612348343 1612348327 9781612348322 9781612348346 9781612348124 1612348122 9781612348339 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln

The Truman White House : The Administration of the Presidency 1945 -1953
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ISBN: 0700601937 0700630961 0700631534 Year: 1980 Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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This retrospective study brings together twentytwo key associates of President Truman’s to consider the administrative operation of the presidency from 1945 to 1953. A record of the discussions that took place at the conference held in May 1977 sponsored by the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and international Affairs, it presents an assortment of views on Truman’s administrative philosophies and practices.The contributors are persons who were close to Truman throughout his presidency: members of the cabinet, the White House staff, and senior officials in Executive Office agencies. Sharing personal reflections are, among others, Charles Brannan, W. Averell Harriman, Leon H. Keyserling, Charles S. Murphy, Richard E. Neustadt, John W. Snyder, Elmer B. Staats, and the late Tom C. Clark. Coordinating the interaction with incisive questions and comments on general administrative history are Edward H. Hobbs of Auburn University, Dorothy Buckton James of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Louis W. Koenig of New York University, and Chester A. Newland of the University of Southern California.A number of important administrative aspects of Truman’s presidency are touched upon as the participants review the years of their White House experience. They talk about policy making in the areas of national security and foreign affairs, about budget and economic matters, relations with Congress, domestic problems such as civil rights, presidential appointments, and even press relations. They exchange anecdotes about the president’s style and their working relationships with him in staff meetings, cabinet meetings, and private briefing sessions. They consider whether Truman had a chief of staff or the equivalent and debate the “liberal” versus the “conservative” stance of the Truman presidency. The creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the establishment of the National Security Council, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the National Security Resources Board during Truman’s administration clearly improved and strengthened the organization of and the institutional aids to the presidency. In answer to the question of what can be learned from the way Truman operated the presidency, however the overriding theme of the exchanges recorded here is that the style of the White House is—inescapably—the president’s style.The picture that emerges in the pages of life and work in Truman’s administration is one of informality, enthusiasm, and camaraderie. A familylike atmosphere pervaded the staff, and the president played the crucial role in setting the tone. Thus, the White House between 1945 and 1853 was orderly because Harry Truman was an orderly person; it was profoundly human because that was Truman’s way. Truman is remembered by his key associates as a prodigious worker and a thorough professional.To those who wrote and spoke for this volume there is no question that the nation was well served by the way Harry Truman managed his affairs in the White House. Incorporating a broad spectrum of firsthand information on the administrative concepts and practices of the Truman era, this book will be of prime interest to all students of government and executive organization.

Truman
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ISBN: 0671456547 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster,

"A new kind of war" : America's global strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece
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ISBN: 0195113853 9780195113853 9780198021469 0198021461 1280529482 9781280529481 019535429X 9780195354294 142940129X 9781429401296 0199880573 0197710964 9780199880577 Year: 1997 Publisher: New-York : Oxford University Press,

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This work explores the Truman administration's involvement in the civil war in Greece in the aftermath of World War II. America's fear of Soviet world domination resulted in the establishment of an American military presence on Greek soil and regular arms shipments as part of a containment policy.

Truman and Pendergast
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ISBN: 0826260500 9780826260505 0826212255 9780826212252 1417527846 9781417527847 Year: 1999 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

The first cold warrior
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ISBN: 0813138396 128323257X 9786613232571 0813171288 9780813171289 9780813138398 9780813123929 0813123925 9781283232579 6613232572 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lexington University Press of Kentucky

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From the moment he took the oath of office in April 1945, Harry Truman was required to make difficult decisions in an increasingly dangerous world. The results -- notably the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- were the building blocks of containment, a strategic approach usually associated with George F. Kennan. In this fresh account, based on primary sources, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding argues that it was Truman himself, shaped by history, experience, and religious faith, who outlined and directed America's practice of containment. In so doing,


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Truman & MacArthur : policy, politics, and the hunger for honor and renown
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ISBN: 1281726443 9786611726447 9870253000187 0253000181 9780253000187 9781281726445 6611726446 9780253350664 0253350662 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive blow that would c

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