Harry S. Truman/Bibliography

This Bibliography is a selective list of the more important scholarly works about Truman.

Biographies

• Burnes, Brian. Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times (2003) excerpt and text search

• Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 (1977); Tumultuous Years: 1949-1953 (1982) detailed 2-vol political history by well-informed journalist
• Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman: A Life (1994)
• Fleming, Thomas J. Harry S. Truman, President (1993) for middle school audience.
• Gosnell, Harold Foote. Truman's Crises: A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman (1980)
• Graff, Henry F., ed. The Presidents: A Reference History. 2nd ed. 1996, 443–458. ISBN 0-684-80471-9
• Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995), very well received scholartly biography
• Hamby, Alonzo L. "Truman, Harry S."; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000
• Kirkendall, Richard S. Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia (1990)
• McCullough, David. Truman. . ISBN 0-671-86920-5 best-selling biography; Pulitzer Prize excerpt and text search

Foreign policy

• Appleman, Roy E. South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (June-November 1950) (United States Army in the Korean War) (1960); official U.S. Army history, online version
• Blair, Clay The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953, Naval Institute Press (2003) revisionist study that attacks Truman and top Army leaders for near-criminal incompetence
• Robert A. Divine. "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
• 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)
• LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1980, 7th edition New York: McGraw-Hill (1993)
• 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), 314-33. Online at JSTOR
• 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), 548-55. Online at Project MUSE
• Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr.; 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), 560-82. Online at JSTOR
• Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, And the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism (2006)
• 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

Domestic policy

• Richard M. Fried; Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. Oxford University Press. 1990.
• 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)
• Kirkendall, Richard S. ed. Harry's Farewell: Interpreting and Teaching the Truman Presidency (2004) essays by scholars
• Koenig, Louis W. The Truman Administration: Its Principles and Practice (1956)
• Lacey, Michael J. ed. The Truman Presidency (1989)
• R. Alton Lee; Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate. University of Kentucky Press, 1966 online edition
• Levantrosser, William F. ed. Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence (1986). 25 essays by scholars and Truman aides. online edition
• Marcus, Maeva Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power (1994)
• Pierpaoli, Paul G. Jr. Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War. University of Missouri Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8262-1206-9. focus on the homefront online review
• 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

• 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, Harry S. Memoirs 2 vol (1955). vol 1 online
• Truman, Margaret. Harry S. Truman. William Morrow and Co. (1973). memoir by his daughter

Audio and video sources

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