This biography of Harry S. Truman provides a reassessment of the American President whose reputation, it asserts, has risen since he left office. Roy Jenkins shows that the Truman presidency (1945-1953) built the structures within which the Western world has lived since World War II. The Marshall Plan promoted not only the recovery, but the unity of Western Europe; NATO enabled this prosperity to grow within a framework of security. Truman's decisions - for all his private indiscretions and occasional muddles - were firm and level-headed, guiding the Western world through the many dangers of the unstable post-war years.
- ISBN10 1448202094
- ISBN13 9781448202096
- Publish Date 28 September 2011 (first published 17 February 1986)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Bloomsbury Reader
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/