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).

Reference and historiography

• Kirkendall, Richard S. Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia (1990)
• 614pp; 27 essays by scholars focusing on historiography
• Kirkendall, Richard S. ed. Harry's Farewell: Interpreting and Teaching the Truman Presidency (2004) essays by scholars
• Levantrosser, William F. ed. Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence (1986). 25 essays by scholars and Truman aides. online edition

Biographical

• about a 1953 vacation trip covered by the media
• Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman: A Life (1994)
• Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995)

Foreign policy

• Divine, Robert A. "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
• Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2009)
• Heiss, Mary Ann, and Michael J. Hogan, eds. Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2015(. xvi, 240 pp.
• 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)
• 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), 314–333. in JSTOR
• Matray, James I. Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas (2012)
• 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), 548–555. Online at Project MUSE
• Pierpaoli Jr., Paul G. 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), 560–582. Online at JSTOR
• 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
• Judis, John B.: Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-16109-5

Politics and domestic issues

• Berman, William C. The politics of civil rights in the Truman administration (1970) online
• reprinted in Hamby 1974, pp. 52–68.
• Bolles, Blair (1952), How to Get Rich in Washington: Rich Man's Division of the Welfare State, New York: Norton.

• Brooks, Karl Boyd, ed. The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. ISBN 978-1-931112-93-2
• Dean, Virgil W. "Why not the Brannan plan?." Agricultural History (1996): 268-282. in JSTOR, on agriculture
• 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)
• Koenig, Louis W. The Truman Administration: Its Principles and Practice (1956)
• Lacey, Michael J. ed. The Truman Presidency (1989)
• Lee, R. Alton; Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate. University of Kentucky Press, 1966 online edition
• Marcus, Maeva Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power (1994)
• Matusow, Allen J. Farm policies and politics in the Truman years (Harvard University Press, 1967).
• Parmet, Herbert S. The Democrats: The Years After FDR (Oxford University Press, 1976)
• Pietrusza, David (2011), 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America, New York: Union Square Press.
• 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).

Primary sources

• Avner, Yehuda The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (2010) (Chapter 9, A Walk with Harry Truman) ISBN 978-1-59264-278-6
• 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, Margaret. Harry S. Truman. William Morrow and Co. (1973). memoir by his daughter

Online sources

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Audio and video sources

• 29 Audio/Video Clips of Harry Truman
• Audio clips of Truman's speeches

Other bibliographies

• Annotated bibliography for Harry S. Truman from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• Bibliography of World War II

External links

• Booknotes interview with David McCullough on Truman, July 19, 1992.
• Booknotes interview with Zachary Karabell on The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election, June 4, 2000.
• Booknotes interview with Steve Neal on Harry and Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World, February 10, 2002.