Item details: Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world - 48515033

Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world

text Ascent to power : how Truman emerged from Roosevelt's shadow and remade the world

Summary: "From Franklin Roosevelt's final days through Harry Truman's extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in U.S. history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a... Read more

Contents: Prologue: Death and rebirth -- Over the rainbow -- Go all out for Truman -- Best he could do -- Unprepared -- Second coming in wrath -- Bearing the unbearable -- Had enough? -- Transformation -- Lift every voice -- Politics of 1948 -- Pour it on, ... Read more

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Description: xi, 531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm

Publisher: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024

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Woodmere (Main Branch)	973.918 ROL in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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TADL-WOOD	973.918 ROL in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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Truman, Harry S 1884-1972 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Presidents United States Biography United States Politics and government 1945-1953 États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1945-1953

Roll, David L. Ward, Jeffrey L. Truman, Harry S Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)

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