“[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
“A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to
hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid
color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company
Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed 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. That is,
until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden
death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding
of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa,
firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender,
the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe,
the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and finally, the end of
World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever
faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President
escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a
tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the
challenges even higher.
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