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"I Was Kind of a Sissy": In Search of Self, 1884-1906 | |
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"I Tried to Dig a Living Out of the Ground": J. A. Truman and Son, Farmers, 1906-1914 | |
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"My Ship's Going to Come in Yet": Misadventures in Venture Capitalism, 1915-1917 | |
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"Our Young Man Was a True Patriot": The Forge of War, 1917-1919 | |
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"June 28, 1920 One Happy Year... June 28, 1922 Broke and in a Bad Way": Family, Fraternity, and Commerce in the 1920s | |
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"I Became a Member of a Fighting County Court": The Darwinian World of Jackson County Politics, 1922 | |
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"McElroy and I Ran the County Court and Took All the Jobs": Ideals and Realities, 1923-1924 | |
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"Enough Left for a Living": Family, Business, Service, 1925-1934 | |
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"Am I an Ethical Giant... Or Just a Crook?": Achievement and Doubt, 1926-1934 | |
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"A Tremendous Amount of Strain": Crisis and Anxiety, 1931-1934 | |
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"I Have Come to the Place Where All Men Strive to Be": Questing for the Heights, 1931-1934 | |
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"Wisdom to Serve the People Acceptably": Life in the Senate, 1935-1940 | |
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"Vultures at the Death of an Elephant": Insurgency, New Dealism, Interest Group Politics, and the Regulatory State, 1935-1940 | |
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"I'm Going to Lick that Double-Crossing, Lying Governor": Struggle for Vindication, 1937-1940 | |
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"We Saved the Taxpayers About Fifteen Billion Dollars": The Truman Committee, 1941-1944 | |
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"Looks Like I've Arrived in the Senate": Statesman and Democratic Leader, 1941-1944 | |
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"Bob, It's Truman. F.D.R.": The Vice Presidency, 1944-1945 | |
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"I Feel Like I Have Been Struck by a Bolt of Lightning": Confronting the Presidency, 1945-1947 | |
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"I Am Here to Make Decisions": Potsdam and Hiroshima, 1945 | |
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"I'm Tired Babying the Soviets": The Cold War Emerges, 1945-1946 | |
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"Being President Is Like Riding a Tiger": The Trials of Liberalism in a Conservative Age, 1945-1946 | |
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"We Must Assist Free Peoples": The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948 | |
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"A Discouraging Prospect Indeed": The Palestine Controversy and the Birth of Israel, 1945-1948 | |
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"Congress Meets - Too Bad Too": Politics, Policy, and the Eightieth Congress, 1947-1948 | |
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"He Done His Damndest": The Precampaign Campaign of 1948 | |
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"I'll Give 'Em Hell": The Campaign of 1948 | |
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"The Great White Sepulcher of Ambition": Living with the Presidency, 1945-1953 | |
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"A Fair Deal": Liberalism and the Web of Government, 1949-1950 | |
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"A Period that Will Be Eventful, Perhaps Decisive": Triumph and Travail in Foreign Relations, January 1949-June 1950 | |
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"We've Got to Stop the Sons of Bitches": Korea: The Downward Spiral Begins, June 25, 1950-April 11, 1951 | |
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"It Isn't Polls or Public Opinion Alone of the Moment that Counts. It Is Right and Wrong, and Leadership": Fighting the Tide, 1951-1952 | |
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"This Is No Time to Yield to Selfish Interests": Economic Mobilization and Corruption, 1951-1952 | |
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"I Have Served My Country Long, and I Think Efficiently and Honestly": Going Out, 1952 | |
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"I Took the Grips Up to the Attic": Old Harry, 1953-1972 | |
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Epilogue: Who He Was, What He Did, and Why We Care | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliographic Essay | |
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Index | |