Memoirs: Year of Decisions and Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope 1946-1952.
TRUMAN, Harry S.
Memoirs: Year of Decisions and Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope 1946-1952.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit": First Editions of Harry Truman’s Memoirs; Inscribed Card by President Truman in Volume One
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955-56.
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First editions of President Truman’s presidential memoirs. Octavo, two volumes, top stains blue, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a card adhered to the front pastedown of volume one, “To Gary W. Woolson kind regards from Harry Truman 2-4-61.” Both volumes are fine in very good to near fine dust jackets, bookplate to the front pastedown. Jacket designs by Sydney Butchkes. Jacket photographs by Eliot Elsofon and U.S. Army Corps.
"Truman’s Memoirs are an invaluable record of the former president’s tumultuous years in office, his early days in Missouri, and his rise in local and state politics. There are delightful glimpses of his family life, striking appraisals and anecdotes of world leaders such as Churchill, Stalin, Chiang and De Gaulle, and candid disclosures about the background of national and international events. But overshadowing all is the story of the glorious task of bringing a war to an end, of working for an enduring peace and leading the free world into a new age" (Doubleday).
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