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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. ''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 0-399-11261-8. London: Gollancz Ltd. (1974) ISBN 0-575-01841-0 ;Reprint (2005) by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 1-57912-437-2

  • Neal, Steve. ed. ''Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-Stops'' (2003)

  • Truman, Harry S. ''Memoirs'' 2 vol (1955). vol 1 online

  • Truman, Margaret. ''Harry S. Truman''. William Morrow and Co. (1973). memoir by his daughter



Secondary sources


Biographies

  • 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)

  • Hamby, Alonzo L. "Truman, Harry S."; ''American National Biography'' Online Feb. 2000

  • Kirkendall, Richard S. ''Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia'' (1990)

  • McCullough, David . ''Truman''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-86920-5 best-selling biography



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 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 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) online edition

  • Walker, J. Samuel. ''Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan'' (1997) 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. online review 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 online edition

  • Levantrosser, William F. ed. ''Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence'' (1986). 25 essays by scholars and Truman aides. 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 online review

  • Ryan, Halford R. ''Harry S. Truman: Presidential Rhetoric'' (1993) online edition

  • Theoharis, Athan. ''The Truman Presidency: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the National Security State'' (1979).



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