Bibliography of Harry S. Truman

Bibliography of Harry S. Truman is a selective list of scholarly works about Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953).

Bibliography

Primary sources

* Bernstein, Barton J., Ed. "The Truman Administration: A Documentary History" (1966); 2nd edition published as "Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration" (1970).
* Ferrell, Robert H. ed. "Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959" (1983)
* Ferrell, Robert H. ed. "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman" (1980).
* Merrill, Dennis. ed. [http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aph/TrumanDocumentary.asp "Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, (1995- )] 35 volumes; available in some large academic libraries.
* Miller, Merle "Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman" (1974) Putnam Publishing Group. ISBN 0399112618. London: Gollancz Ltd. (1974) ISBN 0575018410 (Reprint (2005) by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 1579124372)
* Neal, Steve. ed. "Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-Stops" (2003)
* Truman, Harry S. "Memoirs" 2 vol (1955).
* Truman, Margaret. "Harry S. Truman". William Morrow and Co. (1973). memoir by his daughter

econdary sources

Biographies

* Dayton, Eldorus L. "Give 'em Hell Harry: An Informal Biography of The Terrible Tempered Mr. T" (1956)
* Donovan, Robert J. "Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948" (1977); "Tumultuous Years: 1949-1953" (1982) detailed 2-vol political history
* Ferrell, Robert H. "Harry S. Truman: A Life" (1994)
* Fleming, Thomas J. "Harry S. Truman, President" (1993) for middle school audience.
* Gosnell, Harold Foote. "Truman's Crises: A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman" (1980)
* Graff, Henry F., ed. "The Presidents: A Reference History". 2nd ed. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996, 443–458. ISBN 0-684-80471-9
* Hamby, Alonzo L. "Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman" (1995)
* Kirkendall, Richard S. "Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia" (1990)
* McCullough, David. "Truman". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-86920-5 best-selling biography
* McNaughton , Frank and Walter Hehmeyer. "This Man Truman" (1945)

Foreign policy

* Appleman, Roy E. "South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (June-November 1950)" (United States Army in the Korean War) (1960); official U.S. Army history, [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm online version]
*Blair, Clay "The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953", Naval Institute Press (2003) revisionist study that attacks Truman and top Army leaders for near-criminal incompetence
* Robert A. Divine. "The Cold War and the Election of 1948," "The Journal of American History," Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jun., 1972), pp. 90-110 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28197206%2959%3A1%3C90%3ATCWATE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C in JSTOR]
* Gaddis, John Lewis. "Reconsiderations: Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point?" "Foreign Affairs" 1974 52(2): 386-402. ISSN 0015-7120
* Ivie, Robert L. "Fire, Flood, and Red Fever: Motivating Metaphors of Global Emergency in the Truman Doctrine Speech." "Presidential Studies Quarterly" 1999 29(3): 570-591. ISSN 0360-4918
* Lacey, Michael J. ed. "The Truman Presidency" (1989)
* LaFeber, Walter, "America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1980", 7th edition New York: McGraw-Hill (1993)
* Matray, James. "Truman's Plan for Victory: National Self Determination and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel Decision in Korea," "Journal of American History" 66 (September, 1979), 314-33. Online at JSTOR
* Merrill, Dennis. "The Truman Doctrine: Containing Communism and Modernity" "Presidential Studies Quarterly" 2006 36(1): 27-37. ISSN 0360-4918
* Offner, Arnold A. "'Another Such Victory': President Truman, American Foreign Policy, and the Cold War." "Diplomatic History" 1999 23(2): 127-155. ISSN 0145-2096
* Pelz, Stephen. "When the Kitchen Gets Hot, Pass the Buck: Truman and Korea in 1950," "Reviews in American History" 6 (December 1978), 548-55. Online at Project MUSE
* Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr.; "Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War." University of Missouri Press, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108668070 online edition]
* Smith, Geoffrey S. "'Harry, We Hardly Know You': Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy, 1945-1954," "American Political Science Review" 70 (June 1976), 560-82. Online at JSTOR
* Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. "The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, And the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism" (2006)
* Wainstock, Dennis D. "Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean War" (1999) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23387043 online edition]
* Walker, J. Samuel. "Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan" (1997) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=35245486 online edition]
* Walker, J. Samuel. "Recent Literature on Truman's Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground" "Diplomatic History" April 2005 - Vol. 29 Issue 2 Pp 311-334

Domestic policy

* Richard M. Fried; "Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective." Oxford University Press. 1990.
* Gardner, Michael R. "Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks." Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. xx + 276 pp. ISBN 0-8093-2425-3. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=296321024595230 online review] [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105233906 online edition]
* Hartmann, Susan M. "Truman and the 80th Congress" (1971)
* Heller, Francis H. "Economics and the Truman Administration" (1981)
* Kirkendall, Richard S. ed. "Harry's Farewell: Interpreting and Teaching the Truman Presidency" (2004) essays by scholars
* Koenig, Louis W. "The Truman Administration: Its Principles and Practice" (1956)
* Lacey, Michael J. ed. "The Truman Presidency" (1989)
* R. Alton Lee; "Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate." University of Kentucky Press, 1966 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99000111 online edition]
* Levantrosser, William F. ed. "Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence" (1986). 25 essays by scholars and Truman aides. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23428395 online edition]
* Marcus, Maeva "Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power" (1994)
* Pierpaoli, Paul G. Jr. "Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War." University of Missouri Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8262-1206-9. focus on the homefront [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16627966265512 online review]
* Ryan, Halford R. "Harry S. Truman: Presidential Rhetoric" (1993) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27994601 online edition]
* Theoharis, Athan. "The Truman Presidency: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the National Security State" (1979).

Audio and video sources

* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/medialist.php?presid=33 29 Audio/Video Clips of Harry Truman]
* [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/showfindingaid.cfm?findaidid=TrumanHS Audio clips of Truman's speeches]

Other bibliographies

* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Truman,+Harry+S. Annotated bibliography for Harry S. Truman from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues]

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