Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Preface
Introduction / Harry Truman Writes a Book
Editor’s Note
Preface by Harry S. Truman / Why I Have Written These Memoirs
Chapter 1: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth 1884–1901
Chapter 2: Banker, Farmer, Soldier, Haberdasher 1901–1922
Chapter 3: County Judge 1922–1934
Chapter 4: Senator 1934–1944
Chapter 5: Vice President 1944–1945
Chapter 6: Being President
Chapter 7: President—First Days April 12–30, 1945
Chapter 8: The United Nations Conference April–June 1945
Chapter 9: The End of the War in Europe April–May 1945
Chapter 10: Martha Ellen Truman Visits the White House May 1945
Chapter 11: Preparing to Meet with Churchill and Stalin May–August 1945
Chapter 12: The Potsdam Conference July 6–August 3, 1945
Chapter 13: Ending the War against Japan May–September 1945
Chapter 14: International Challenges at War’s End April–October 1945
Chapter 15: The Cabinet 1945–1946
Chapter 16: Demobilization and Universal Military Training May–October 1945
Chapter 17: The Budget
Chapter 18: Postwar Economic Problems 1945–1948
Chapter 19: Atomic Energy after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Chapter 20: Foreign Aid Lend-Lease, the British Loan, Food Aid, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Point Four
Chapter 21: Reorganizing for National Security 1945–1949
Chapter 22: NATO 1948–1952
Chapter 23: The Berlin Airlift 1948–1949
Chapter 24: Israel
Chapter 25: Civil War in China 1945–1949
Chapter 26: The Fair Deal The 21-Point Message, Full Employment, Civil Rights, Housing, Agriculture, Health Care
Chapter 27: The Election of 1948
Chapter 28: Communism, Anti-Communism, and Civil Liberties
Chapter 29: Seizure of the Steel Mills 1951–1952
Chapter 30: The Korean War 1—Invasion June–October 1950
Chapter 31: The Korean War 2—Chinese Intervention October–December 1950
Chapter 32: The Korean War 3—MacArthur is Removed from His Commands; Stalemate and Negotiations 1950–1953
Chapter 33: Campaign and Transition 1952
Appendix People Mentioned in The Memoirs of Harry S. Truman, A Reader’s Edition
Index