Your purchase helps support the educational and exhibit programs of the Harry S. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. Jean shares behind the scenes stories from her new book, The Man I Knew. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, fire bombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. CORNISH: Eight vice presidents have become president after the man they served died. Accidental Presidents shows that history unfolds in death as well as in life (The Wall Street Journal) and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the power and limits of the American presidency in critical times. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man, that is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. What a delightful book and brilliant concept Jared Cohen treats us to some of the most colorful and momentous episodes in our history when we unexpectedly got a new president. Chosen as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S.

Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the. He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right.

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