After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...

David McCullough wrote the essay on Harry Truman for the book Character Above ... Mr. McCullough is the author of a highly acclaimed biography of the 33rd President of the United States entitled ...

Susan Pogany has proof. In a scrapbook in Pogany’s house is a 1949 letter President Harry S. Truman wrote to her grandfather, Sam Roberts, a well-known Kansas City-area doctor who was the ear ...

The Federal Civil Defense Administration was organized by President Harry S. Truman on 1 December 1950 ... Management edited by Walter G. Green III Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Federal ...

Perle Mesta and President Harry S. Truman chat at a reception in Washington ... Meryl Gordon’s sympathetic and involving new biography, “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” rescues Mesta from ...