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**The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikely, small-town Washington outsider had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.**Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man, still considered an obscure Missouri politician. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR's sudden death. At the climactic moments of the Second World War, Truman had to play judge and jury during the founding of the United Nations, the Potsdam Conference, the Manhattan Project, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, and the decision to drop the bomb and end World War II.Tightly focused, meticulously researched, and using documents not available to previous biographers, *The Accidental President* escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during this tumultuous

Author

A J Baime, (Albert J.)

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780544617346

Subjects

History, Biography, Art

Rating

4.7 / 5 (8,632 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14