Harry S. Truman, the nation’s 33rd president, was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Fifty-one years later, on May 8, 1945, he was president for less than one month when he announced Allied Victory in Europe. That broadcast is available online. Download it to your ipod and impress your friends.
To learn more about Harry S. Truman, check out one of the books below. (They’re all on the third floor.) To learn more online go to the Truman Presidential Museum & Library.
The autobiography of Harry S. Truman
edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Boulder, Colo. : Colorado Associated University Press, 1980
E814 .A32
Conflict and crisis: the Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948
Robert J. Donovan
New York : Norton, 1977
E813 .D6
FDR and Harry: unparalleled lives
Robert Underhill
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996
E807 .U53 1996
Harry S. Truman: a life
Robert H. Ferrell
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1994
E814 .F46 1994
Letters from father: the Truman family’s personal correspondence
edited by Margaret Truman
New York : Arbor House, 1981
E814.1 .L47
Man of the people: a life of Harry S. Truman
Alonzo L. Hamby
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
E814 .H28 1995
Strictly personal and confidential: the letters Harry Truman never mailed
edited by Monte M. Poen
Boston : Little, Brown, 1982
E814 .A4 1982B
Truman
David McCullough
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1992
E814 .M26 1992
Truman’s crises: a political biography of Harry S. Truman
Harold F. Gosnell
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980
E814 .G67
Where the buck stops: the personal and private writings of Harry S. Truman
edited by Margaret Truman
New York, NY : Warner Books, 1989
E742.5 .T62 1989
