Easton Press "The Memoirs of Harry S. Truman" 4 Volume Complete Matched Set [Leather Bound]

Easton Press, Norwalk CT 1995. "The Memoirs of Harry S. Truman". Full genuine leather. Leather bound collector's editions. A complete and matching set of four volumes luxuriously bound in blue leather with gilt edges, silk ribbons, and 5 raised bands. Still sealed in the original shrink-wrap from the publisher. Matching presidential decorations on each spine.

A 4 volume set that includes the following:

1. Truman Speaks
2. Year of Decisions
3. Years of Trial and Hope
4. Mr. Citizen

About the Author

Born in Missouri on May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vice president for just 82 days before Roosevelt died, and Truman became the nation's 33rd president. In his first months in office, he ended World War II by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. His policy of communist containment started the Cold War, and he initiated U.S. involvement in the Korean War. Truman left office in 1953 and died in 1972.

About the Books

Year of Decisions - In this invaluable account, President Truman provides extraordinary insight into events and decisions that have shaped the world we live in. The momentous year, 1945, witnessed the accession of a new president in wartime, the first use of atomic weaponry, the end of the war with Japan and the founding of United Nations. Engaging and informal, Truman's Memoirs display the sterling character of a man who, thrust into a job he neither sought nor wanted, proved to be one of the ablest men ever to hold the office of the presidency. [description from Amazon.com]

Years of Trial and Hope - Covering the major issues of Truman's administration, the substance is approached in this book issue by issue: atomic energy; the Taft-Hartley Act; universal military training; problems of security; the Brannan farm plan and his own goals in agriculture- hamstrung by Congress; the post-war procedures in atomic energy and the decision about the hydrogen bomb; the seizure of the steel mills; the issue of the Truman off-shore oil bill and the overriding of the veto; and, midway, the pattern of the political campaign and the election.

Throughout, the reader must begin to realize the concentrated devotion to the goals as he saw them, his determination to know every possible aspect of each subject before reaching a decision, the depth of understanding on a wide range of topics, occasional snap judgments, errors in conclusion, more than offset by long term thinking and courage in risking condemnation of public opinion, within as well as without the party. In these pages Harry S. Truman grows in stature, and the final verdict of history is implicit in the story. [excerpted from Kirkus Reviews]