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Man of the people : a life of Harry S. Truman by Alonzo L. Hamby is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Harry S. Truman is remembered today as an icon--the plain-speaking president, Give 'em Hell Harry, the chief executive who put The Buck Stops Here on his desk. But Alonzo L. Hamby shows that there was more to Truman than the pugnacious fighter so prominent in popular memory. Insecure, ambitious, a man of honor, a partisan loyalist, an agrarian Jeffersonian Democrat who became a champion of big government, Truman was a complex figure who fought long and hard to triumph over his own weaknesses. In __Man of the People__, Hamby offers a gripping account of this distinctively American life, tracing Truman's remarkable rise from marginal farmer in rural Missouri to shaper of the postwar world. Truman comes alive in these pages as he has nowhere else, making his way from the farmhouse, to the front lines in France during World War I, to the difficult small-business world of Kansas City--all the time struggling with his deep feelings of inadequacy and immense ambition. Hamby provides an honest, incisive look at the rising politician's relationship with Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast, who sponsored his career from the county court to the U.S. Senate. We see how Truman, a ferociou
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alonzo L. Hamby
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195045468
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Political Science