Bess Wallace Truman's Books

Dear Bess

The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959

By: Harry S. Truman

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Dear Bess

The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959

By: Harry S. Truman

This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.

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614

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University of Missouri Press

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ISBN 10

0826212034

ISBN 13

9780826212030

Dear Harry, Love Bess

Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919-1943

By: Clifton Truman Daniel,Bess Wallace Truman

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Dear Harry, Love Bess

Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919-1943

By: Clifton Truman Daniel,Bess Wallace Truman

One evening in 1955, Harry Truman came home to find Bess burning her letters to him. “What are you doing? Think of history,” he said. “Oh, I have,” she said and tossed in another stack. Bess Truman thought her business was hers and nobody else's, so she destroyed her half of the more than 2,600 letters she and Harry exchanged during their courtship and marriage. While making an inventory of the Truman home in the 1980s, archivists discovered 184 letters Bess had missed. Her grandson Clifton Truman Daniel shares them here, along with portions of Harry's responses, family photographs, and stories. These letters provide new insight into the lives and personalities of Bess and Harry Truman during the formative years of his political life. Despite Bess's shy and self-effacing manner, her lively correspondence offers a glimpse of a caring and witty woman who shared her concerns about family, politics, and day-to-day activities with her husband.

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271

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Truman State Univ Press

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ISBN 10

1935503251

ISBN 13

9781935503255

Choices Under Fire

Moral Dimensions of World War II

By: Michael Bess

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Choices Under Fire

Moral Dimensions of World War II

By: Michael Bess

World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult questions and others, arguing eloquently against the binaries of honor and dishonor, pride and shame, and points instead toward a nuanced reckoning with one of the most pivotal conflicts in human history.

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418

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Vintage

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0307494454

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9780307494450

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