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This '''Bibliography of Harry S. Truman''' is a selective list of scholarly works about [[Harry S. Truman]], the thirty-third [[President of the United States]] (1945–1953).
==Reference and historiography==
* Kirkendall, Richard S. ''Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia'' (1990)
* {{cite book
|editor-last=Margolies
|editor-first=Daniel S.
|title=A Companion to Harry S. Truman
|date=2012
|isbn= 978-1-4443-3141-7
|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell
}} 614pp; 27 essays by scholars focusing on historiography
* Kirkendall, Richard S. ed. ''Harry's Farewell: Interpreting and Teaching the Truman Presidency'' (2004) essays by scholars
* Levantrosser, William F. ed. ''Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence'' (1986). 25 essays by scholars and Truman aides. [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23428395 online edition]
==Biographical==
{{external media| float = right| width = 230px | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?71554-1/president-truman-biographies Organization of American Historians panel on Truman biographies: "The participants discussed three recent biographies of President Truman by McCullough, Hamby and Ferrell. Four historians reviewed the books and two of the biographers responded to these critiques. They also discussed the larger issues associated with biography of leading historical figures. Ferrell's book is titled, ''Harry S. Truman: A Life'', Hamby's is ''Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman'' and McCullough's is ''Truman''."], [[C-SPAN]]}}
* {{cite book
| last = Algeo
| first = Matthew
| year = 2009
| title = Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
| publisher = Chicago Review Press
| location = Chicago
| isbn = 978-1-55652-777-7
}} about a 1953 vacation trip covered by the media
* {{cite book
| last = Donovan
| first = Robert J.
| authorlink = Robert J. Donovan
| year = 1983
| title = Tumultuous Years: 1949–1953
| publisher = W. W. Norton
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-393-01619-2
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Donovan
| first = Robert J.
| year = 1996
| title = Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry Truman, 1945–1948
| publisher = University of Missouri Press
| location = Columbia, MO
| isbn = 978-0-8262-1066-1
}}
* {{cite book|last=Ferrell|first=Robert H. |authorlink=Robert Hugh Ferrell|title=Harry S. Truman: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7UXSMj3OF4oC|year=1994|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-6045-1}}
* {{cite book
| last = Fleming
| first = Thomas J.
| authorlink = Thomas Fleming (historian)
| year = 1993
| title = Harry S. Truman, President
| publisher = Walker & Co
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-8027-8269-4
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Gosnell
| first = Harold Foote
| authorlink = Harold Foote Gosnell
| year = 1980
| title = Truman's Crises: A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman
| publisher = Greenwood Press
| location = Westport, CT
| isbn = 978-0-313-21273-4
}}
{{external media | width = 230px | align = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?27217-1/truman ''Booknotes'' interview with David McCullough on ''Truman'', July 19, 1992], [[C-SPAN]]<ref name="cspan">{{cite web | title =Truman| work = | publisher =[[C-SPAN]] | date =July 19, 1992 | url =https://www.c-span.org/video/?27217-1/truman| accessdate =March 27, 2017 }}</ref> }}
* {{cite book
| editor-last = Graff
| editor-first = Henry F.
| year = 1996
| title = The Presidents: A Reference History
| edition = 2nd
| publisher = Scribner Book Company
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-684-80471-2
| pages = 443–458
}}
* [[Alonzo Hamby|Hamby, Alonzo L.]] ''Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman'' (1995)
* {{cite journal
| last = Jesperson
| first = Christopher
| title = Drama at Blair House: the attempted assassination of Harry Truman
| journal = Journal of Conflict Studies
| issue = Fall 1995
}}
* {{cite book
| last = McCullough
| first = David
| authorlink = David McCullough
| year = 1992
| title = [[Truman (book)|Truman]]
| publisher = Simon & Schuster
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-671-86920-5
}}
==Foreign policy==
* {{cite book
| last = Appleman
| first = Roy E.
| year = 1992
| title = South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (June–November 1950)
| publisher = Center of Military History, U.S. Army
| location = Washington, DC
| url = http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm
| isbn = 978-0-16-035958-3
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Blair
| first = Clay
| authorlink = Clay Blair
| year = 2003
| title = The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
| publisher = Naval Institute Press
| location = Annapolis, MD
| isbn = 978-1-59114-075-7
}}
* Divine, Robert A. "The Cold War and the Election of 1948," ''The Journal of American History,'' Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jun. 1972), pp. 90–110 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888388 in JSTOR]
* {{cite book
| last = Duiker
| first = William J.
| authorlink = William J. Duiker
| year = 1994
| title = U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina
| publisher = Stanford University Press
| location = Stanford, CA
| isbn = 978-0-8047-2283-4
}}
* [[Gaddis, John Lewis]]. "Reconsiderations: Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point?" ''Foreign Affairs'' 1974 52(2): 386–402. ISSN 0015-7120
* {{cite book
| last = Holloway
| first = David
| year = 1994
| title = Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939–1956
| location = New Haven, CT
| publisher = Yale University Press
| isbn = 978-0-300-06664-7
}}
* Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. ''Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan'' (2009)
* Heiss, Mary Ann, and Michael J. Hogan, eds. ''Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman'' (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2015(. xvi, 240 pp.
* 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
* {{cite book
| last = Kepley
| first = David R.
| year = 1988
| title = The Collapse of the Middle Way: Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948–1952
| publisher = Greenwood Press
| location = Westport, CT
| isbn = 978-0-313-25784-1
}}
* Lacey, Michael J. ed. ''The Truman Presidency'' (1989)
* {{cite book
| last = LaFeber
| first = Walter
| authorlink = Walter LaFeber
| year = 1993
| title = America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1992
| edition = 7th
| publisher = McGraw-Hill
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-07-035853-9
}}
* 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), 314–333. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1900879 in JSTOR]
* Matray, James I. ''Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas'' (2012)
* 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), 548–555. Online at Project MUSE
* Pierpaoli Jr., Paul G. ''Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War.'' University of Missouri Press, 1999 [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108668070 online edition]
* {{cite book
| last = Sandler
| first = Stanley
| year = 1995
| title = The Korean War: An Encyclopedia
| publisher = Taylor & Francis
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-8240-4445-9
}}
* Smith, Geoffrey S. "'Harry, We Hardly Know You': Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy, 1945–1954," ''American Political Science Review'' 70 (June 1976), 560–582. Online at JSTOR
* {{cite book
| last = Spalding
| first = Elizabeth Edwards
| year = 2006
| title = The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
| publisher = The University Press of Kentucky
| location = Lexington, KY
| isbn = 978-0-8131-2392-9
}}
* Wainstock, Dennis D. ''Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean War'' (1999) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23387043 online edition]
* Walker, J. Samuel. ''Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan'' (1997) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=35245486 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
* Judis, John B.: ''Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.'' Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-374-16109-5}}
==Politics and domestic issues==
* Berman, William C. ''The politics of civil rights in the Truman administration'' (1970) [https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/6276/THE_POLITICS_OF_CIVIL_RIGHTS_IN_THE_TRUMAN_ADMINISTRATION.pdf?sequence=1 online]
* {{cite book
| editor-last = Bernstein
| editor-first = Barton J.
| year = 1970
| title = Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration
| publisher = Franklin Watts
| isbn = 978-0-531-06328-6
| edition = 2nd
}}
* {{cite book
| editor-last = Bernstein
| editor-first = Barton J.
| year = 1969
| title = Towards A New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History
| publisher = Vintage Books
| location = New York
| chapter = America In War and Peace: The Test of Liberalism
| pages = 289–291
| isbn = 978-0-394-70494-4
}} reprinted in Hamby 1974, pp. 52–68.
* Bolles, Blair (1952), ''How to Get Rich in Washington: Rich Man's Division of the Welfare State'', New York: Norton.
* {{cite book
| last = Boyer
| first = Paul
| year = 1994
| title = By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| location = Chapel Hill, NC
| isbn = 978-0-8078-4480-9
}}
* Brooks, Karl Boyd, ed. ''The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman,'' (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-931112-93-2}}
* Dean, Virgil W. "Why not the Brannan plan?." ''Agricultural History'' (1996): 268–282. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3744537 in JSTOR], on agriculture
* {{cite book|last=Ferrell|first=Robert H. |authorlink=Robert Hugh Ferrell|title=Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxoOSV2l3IAC|year=1994|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-7298-0}}
* {{cite book
| last = Fried
| first = Richard M.
| year = 1990
| title = Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-19-504361-7
}}
* 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}}. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=296321024595230 online review] [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105233906 online edition]
* Hartmann, Susan M. ''Truman and the 80th Congress'' (1971)
* Heller, Francis H. ''Economics and the Truman Administration'' (1981)
* Koenig, Louis W. ''The Truman Administration: Its Principles and Practice'' (1956)
* Lacey, Michael J. ed. ''The Truman Presidency'' (1989)
* [[R. Alton Lee|Lee, R. Alton]]; ''Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate.'' University of Kentucky Press, 1966 [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99000111 online edition]
* Marcus, Maeva ''Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power'' (1994)
* Matusow, Allen J. ''Farm policies and politics in the Truman years'' (Harvard University Press, 1967).
* Parmet, Herbert S. ''The Democrats: The Years After FDR'' (Oxford University Press, 1976)
* [[David Pietrusza|Pietrusza, David]] (2011), ''1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America'', New York: Union Square Press.
* Ryan, Halford R. ''Harry S. Truman: Presidential Rhetoric'' (1993) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27994601 online edition]
* Theoharis, Athan. ''The Truman Presidency: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the National Security State'' (1979).
==Primary sources==
* [[Yehuda Avner|Avner, Yehuda]] ''The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership'' (2010) (Chapter 9, '' A Walk with Harry Truman'') {{ISBN|978-1-59264-278-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Ayers|first=Eben A. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell |title=Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZvgBPTJaVEC|year=1991|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-0790-6}}
* Bernstein, Barton J., Ed. ''The Truman Administration: A Documentary History'' (1966); 2nd edition published as ''Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration'' (1970).
* {{cite book
| last1 = Clifford
| first1 = Clark
| last2 = Holbrooke
| first2 = Richard
| year = 1991
| title = Counsel to the President
| publisher = Random House
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-394-56995-6
}}
* Merrill, Dennis. ed. [http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aph/TrumanDocumentary.asp ''Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, (1995– )] 35 volumes; available in some large academic libraries.
* [[Merle Miller|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}})
* [[Steve Neal (historian)|Neal, Steve]] ed. ''Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-Stops'' (2003)
* {{cite book|last=Truman|first=Harry S. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell|title=Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6y0odeAgVDwC|year=1983|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-8262-1203-0}}
* {{cite book
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| year = 1955
| title = Memoirs: Year of Decisions
| volume = 1
| publisher = Doubleday
| location = Garden City, NY
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| year = 1956
| title = Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope
| volume = 2
| publisher = Doubleday
| location = Garden City, NY
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| year = 1960
| title = Mr. Citizen
| publisher = Independence Press
| location =
| isbn = 978-0830900954
}}
* {{cite book|last=Truman|first=Harry S. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell |title=Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVVffTwVVy4C|year=1980|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-8262-1119-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Truman|first=Harry S. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell |title=The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qdqnsbUVFsC|year=2002|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-1445-4}}* [[Margaret Truman|Truman, Margaret]]. ''Harry S. Truman''. William Morrow and Co. (1973). memoir by his daughter
==Online sources==
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = July 2, 1951
| title = National Affairs: Anniversary Remembrance
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815031,00.html
| accessdate = July 25, 2012
}} {{subscription}}
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = August 27, 1951
| title = McCarthyism v. "Trumanism"
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815218-1,00.html
| accessdate = July 25, 2012
}} {{subscription}}
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = September 15, 1952
| title = Democrats: The Way West
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816934-1,00.html
| accessdate = September 4, 2012
}} {{subscription}}
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = November 30, 1953
| title = The White Case Record
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823119,00.html
| accessdate = September 1, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Fuchs
| first = James R.
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Oral History Interview with Edgar G. Hinde
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/hindeeg.htm
| accessdate = July 28, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
|last=Hess
|first=Jerry N.
|publisher=Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
|title=Oral History Interviews with Karl R. Bendetsen: General Counsel, Department of the Army, 1949; Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1950–52; Under Secretary of the Army, 1952
|work=Oral Archives
|url=http://www.korean-war.com/miakia.html
|date=November 21, 1972
|accessdate=July 28, 2012
|deadurl=yes
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824172134/http://www.korean-war.com/miakia.html
|archivedate=August 24, 2012
|df=mdy
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary/page21.htm
| date = July 21, 1947
| accessdate = July 27, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Full text of original copy of the order at the Truman library
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/9981.htm
| date = July 26, 1948
| accessdate = July 28, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Telegram, Joseph McCarthy to Harry S. Truman, February 11, 1950, with Truman's draft reply; McCarthy, Joseph; General File; PSF; Truman Papers
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/exhibit_documents/index.php?pagenumber=1&titleid=203&tldate=1950-02-11&collectionid=mccarthy&PageID=-1&groupid=3435
| date = February 11, 1950
| accessdate = July 23, 2012
}}
* {{cite news
| last1 = Dana
| first1 = Rebecca
| last2 = Carlson
| first2 = Peter
| title = Harry Truman's Forgotten Diary
| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A40678-2003Jul10¬Found=true
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| date = July 11, 2003
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Donaldson
| first = Gary A.
| publisher = State of New Jersey
| title = Truman
| url = http://www.state.nj.us/military//korea/biographies/truman.html
| year = 1995
| accessdate = September 3, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Kennan
| first = George
| year = 1947
| title = The Sources of Soviet Conduct
| publisher = History Guide
| work = Lectures on 20th Century Europe
| url = http://www.historyguide.org/europe/kennan.html
| accessdate = September 1, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| title = Executive Order 9835 – Prescribing Procedures for the Administration of an Employees Loyalty Program in the Executive Branch of the Government
| publisher = University of California at Santa Barbara
| work = The American Presidency Project
| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75524&st=9835
| accessdate = September 3, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| title = Word Has Just Been Received: Truman Speaks on the Railroad Strike: 1948–1952
| publisher = [[George Mason University]]
| work = History Matters
| url = http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5137/
| accessdate = September 1, 2012
}}
===Audio and video sources===
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/medialist.php?presid=33 29 Audio/Video Clips of Harry Truman]
* [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/showfindingaid.cfm?findaidid=TrumanHS Audio clips of Truman's speeches]
===Truman on US postage stamps===
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = Harry S. Truman Issue
| date = May 8, 1973
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2034486
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = 20-cent Truman
| date = January 26, 1984
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2029377
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = Ameripex '86 Issue
| date = May 22, 1986
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=72455&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2037071
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = 1995 World War II Issue
| date = September 2, 1995
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=192010&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2043466
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = 1940s Celebrate The Century Issues
| date = February 18, 1999
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2041393
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
==Other bibliographies==
* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Truman,+Harry+S. Annotated bibliography for Harry S. Truman from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues]
* [[Bibliography of World War II]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
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* [https://www.c-span.org/video/?157020-1/last-campaign-harry-truman-won-1948-election ''Booknotes'' interview with Zachary Karabell on ''The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election'', June 4, 2000.]
* [https://www.c-span.org/video/?167668-1/harry-ike ''Booknotes'' interview with Steve Neal on ''Harry and Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World'', February 10, 2002.]
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This '''Bibliography of Harry S. Truman''' is a selective list of scholarly works about [[Harry S. Truman]], the thirty-third [[President of the United States]] (1945–1953).
==Reference and historiography==
* Kirkendall, Richard S. ''Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia'' (1990)
* {{cite book
|editor-last=Margolies
|editor-first=Daniel S.
|title=A Companion to Harry S. Truman
|date=2012
|isbn= 978-1-4443-3141-7
|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell
}} 614pp; 27 essays by scholars focusing on historiography
* Kirkendall, Richard S. ed. ''Harry's Farewell: Interpreting and Teaching the Truman Presidency'' (2004) essays by scholars
* Levantrosser, William F. ed. ''Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence'' (1986). 25 essays by scholars and Truman aides. [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23428395 online edition]
==Biographical==
{{external media| float = right| width = 230px | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?71554-1/president-truman-biographies Organization of American Historians panel on Truman biographies: "The participants discussed three recent biographies of President Truman by McCullough, Hamby and Ferrell. Four historians reviewed the books and two of the biographers responded to these critiques. They also discussed the larger issues associated with biography of leading historical figures. Ferrell's book is titled, ''Harry S. Truman: A Life'', Hamby's is ''Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman'' and McCullough's is ''Truman''."], [[C-SPAN]]}}
* {{cite book
| last = Algeo
| first = Matthew
| year = 2009
| title = Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
| publisher = Chicago Review Press
| location = Chicago
| isbn = 978-1-55652-777-7
}} about a 1953 vacation trip covered by the media
* {{cite book
| last = Donovan
| first = Robert J.
| authorlink = Robert J. Donovan
| year = 1983
| title = Tumultuous Years: 1949–1953
| publisher = W. W. Norton
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-393-01619-2
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Donovan
| first = Robert J.
| year = 1996
| title = Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry Truman, 1945–1948
| publisher = University of Missouri Press
| location = Columbia, MO
| isbn = 978-0-8262-1066-1
}}
* {{cite book|last=Ferrell|first=Robert H. |authorlink=Robert Hugh Ferrell|title=Harry S. Truman: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7UXSMj3OF4oC|year=1994|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-6045-1}}
* {{cite book
| last = Fleming
| first = Thomas J.
| authorlink = Thomas Fleming (historian)
| year = 1993
| title = Harry S. Truman, President
| publisher = Walker & Co
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-8027-8269-4
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Gosnell
| first = Harold Foote
| authorlink = Harold Foote Gosnell
| year = 1980
| title = Truman's Crises: A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman
| publisher = Greenwood Press
| location = Westport, CT
| isbn = 978-0-313-21273-4
}}
{{external media | width = 230px | align = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?27217-1/truman ''Booknotes'' interview with David McCullough on ''Truman'', July 19, 1992], [[C-SPAN]]<ref name="cspan">{{cite web | title =Truman| work = | publisher =[[C-SPAN]] | date =July 19, 1992 | url =https://www.c-span.org/video/?27217-1/truman| accessdate =March 27, 2017 }}</ref> }}
* {{cite book
| editor-last = Graff
| editor-first = Henry F.
| year = 1996
| title = The Presidents: A Reference History
| edition = 2nd
| publisher = Scribner Book Company
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-684-80471-2
| pages = 443–458
}}
* [[Alonzo Hamby|Hamby, Alonzo L.]] ''Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman'' (1995)
* {{cite journal
| last = Jesperson
| first = Christopher
| title = Drama at Blair House: the attempted assassination of Harry Truman
| journal = Journal of Conflict Studies
| issue = Fall 1995
}}
* {{cite book
| last = McCullough
| first = David
| authorlink = David McCullough
| year = 1992
| title = [[Truman (book)|Truman]]
| publisher = Simon & Schuster
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-671-86920-5
}}
==Foreign policy==
* {{cite book
| last = Appleman
| first = Roy E.
| year = 1992
| title = South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (June–November 1950)
| publisher = Center of Military History, U.S. Army
| location = Washington, DC
| url = http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm
| isbn = 978-0-16-035958-3
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Blair
| first = Clay
| authorlink = Clay Blair
| year = 2003
| title = The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
| publisher = Naval Institute Press
| location = Annapolis, MD
| isbn = 978-1-59114-075-7
}}
* Divine, Robert A. "The Cold War and the Election of 1948," ''The Journal of American History,'' Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jun. 1972), pp. 90–110 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888388 in JSTOR]
* {{cite book
| last = Duiker
| first = William J.
| authorlink = William J. Duiker
| year = 1994
| title = U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina
| publisher = Stanford University Press
| location = Stanford, CA
| isbn = 978-0-8047-2283-4
}}
* [[Gaddis, John Lewis]]. "Reconsiderations: Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point?" ''Foreign Affairs'' 1974 52(2): 386–402. ISSN 0015-7120
* {{cite book
| last = Holloway
| first = David
| year = 1994
| title = Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939–1956
| location = New Haven, CT
| publisher = Yale University Press
| isbn = 978-0-300-06664-7
}}
* Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. ''Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan'' (2009)
* Heiss, Mary Ann, and Michael J. Hogan, eds. ''Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman'' (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2015(. xvi, 240 pp.
* 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
* {{cite book
| last = Kepley
| first = David R.
| year = 1988
| title = The Collapse of the Middle Way: Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948–1952
| publisher = Greenwood Press
| location = Westport, CT
| isbn = 978-0-313-25784-1
}}
* Lacey, Michael J. ed. ''The Truman Presidency'' (1989)
* {{cite book
| last = LaFeber
| first = Walter
| authorlink = Walter LaFeber
| year = 1993
| title = America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1992
| edition = 7th
| publisher = McGraw-Hill
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-07-035853-9
}}
* 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), 314–333. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1900879 in JSTOR]
* Matray, James I. ''Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas'' (2012)
* 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), 548–555. Online at Project MUSE
* Pierpaoli Jr., Paul G. ''Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War.'' University of Missouri Press, 1999 [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108668070 online edition]
* {{cite book
| last = Sandler
| first = Stanley
| year = 1995
| title = The Korean War: An Encyclopedia
| publisher = Taylor & Francis
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-8240-4445-9
}}
* Smith, Geoffrey S. "'Harry, We Hardly Know You': Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy, 1945–1954," ''American Political Science Review'' 70 (June 1976), 560–582. Online at JSTOR
* {{cite book
| last = Spalding
| first = Elizabeth Edwards
| year = 2006
| title = The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
| publisher = The University Press of Kentucky
| location = Lexington, KY
| isbn = 978-0-8131-2392-9
}}
* Wainstock, Dennis D. ''Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean War'' (1999) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23387043 online edition]
* Walker, J. Samuel. ''Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan'' (1997) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=35245486 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
* Judis, John B.: ''Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.'' Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-374-16109-5}}
==Politics and domestic issues==
* Berman, William C. ''The politics of civil rights in the Truman administration'' (1970) [https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/6276/THE_POLITICS_OF_CIVIL_RIGHTS_IN_THE_TRUMAN_ADMINISTRATION.pdf?sequence=1 online]
* {{cite book
| editor-last = Bernstein
| editor-first = Barton J.
| year = 1970
| title = Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration
| publisher = Franklin Watts
| isbn = 978-0-531-06328-6
| edition = 2nd
}}
* {{cite book
| editor-last = Bernstein
| editor-first = Barton J.
| year = 1969
| title = Towards A New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History
| publisher = Vintage Books
| location = New York
| chapter = America In War and Peace: The Test of Liberalism
| pages = 289–291
| isbn = 978-0-394-70494-4
}} reprinted in Hamby 1974, pp. 52–68.
* Bolles, Blair (1952), ''How to Get Rich in Washington: Rich Man's Division of the Welfare State'', New York: Norton.
* {{cite book
| last = Boyer
| first = Paul
| year = 1994
| title = By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| location = Chapel Hill, NC
| isbn = 978-0-8078-4480-9
}}
* Brooks, Karl Boyd, ed. ''The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman,'' (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-931112-93-2}}
* Dean, Virgil W. "Why not the Brannan plan?." ''Agricultural History'' (1996): 268–282. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3744537 in JSTOR], on agriculture
* {{cite book|last=Ferrell|first=Robert H. |authorlink=Robert Hugh Ferrell|title=Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxoOSV2l3IAC|year=1994|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-7298-0}}
* {{cite book
| last = Fried
| first = Richard M.
| year = 1990
| title = Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-19-504361-7
}}
* 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}}. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=296321024595230 online review] [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105233906 online edition]
* Hartmann, Susan M. ''Truman and the 80th Congress'' (1971)
* Heller, Francis H. ''Economics and the Truman Administration'' (1981)
* Koenig, Louis W. ''The Truman Administration: Its Principles and Practice'' (1956)
* Lacey, Michael J. ed. ''The Truman Presidency'' (1989)
* [[R. Alton Lee|Lee, R. Alton]]; ''Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate.'' University of Kentucky Press, 1966 [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99000111 online edition]
* Marcus, Maeva ''Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power'' (1994)
* Matusow, Allen J. ''Farm policies and politics in the Truman years'' (Harvard University Press, 1967).
* Parmet, Herbert S. ''The Democrats: The Years After FDR'' (Oxford University Press, 1976)
* [[David Pietrusza|Pietrusza, David]] (2011), ''1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America'', New York: Union Square Press.
* Ryan, Halford R. ''Harry S. Truman: Presidential Rhetoric'' (1993) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27994601 online edition]
* Theoharis, Athan. ''The Truman Presidency: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the National Security State'' (1979).
==Primary sources==
* [[Yehuda Avner|Avner, Yehuda]] ''The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership'' (2010) (Chapter 9, '' A Walk with Harry Truman'') {{ISBN|978-1-59264-278-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Ayers|first=Eben A. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell |title=Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZvgBPTJaVEC|year=1991|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-0790-6}}
* Bernstein, Barton J., Ed. ''The Truman Administration: A Documentary History'' (1966); 2nd edition published as ''Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration'' (1970).
* {{cite book
| last1 = Clifford
| first1 = Clark
| last2 = Holbrooke
| first2 = Richard
| year = 1991
| title = Counsel to the President
| publisher = Random House
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-394-56995-6
}}
* Merrill, Dennis. ed. [http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aph/TrumanDocumentary.asp ''Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, (1995– )] 35 volumes; available in some large academic libraries.
* [[Merle Miller|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}})
* [[Steve Neal (historian)|Neal, Steve]] ed. ''Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-Stops'' (2003)
* {{cite book|last=Truman|first=Harry S. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell|title=Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6y0odeAgVDwC|year=1983|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-8262-1203-0}}
* {{cite book
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| year = 1955
| title = Memoirs: Year of Decisions
| volume = 1
| publisher = Doubleday
| location = Garden City, NY
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| year = 1956
| title = Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope
| volume = 2
| publisher = Doubleday
| location = Garden City, NY
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| year = 1960
| title = Mr. Citizen
| publisher = Independence Press
| location =
| isbn = 978-0830900954
}}
* {{cite book|last=Truman|first=Harry S. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell |title=Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVVffTwVVy4C|year=1980|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-8262-1119-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Truman|first=Harry S. |editor-last=Ferrell|editor-first=Robert H.|editor-link=Robert Hugh Ferrell |title=The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qdqnsbUVFsC|year=2002|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-1445-4}}* [[Margaret Truman|Truman, Margaret]]. ''Harry S. Truman''. William Morrow and Co. (1973). memoir by his daughter
==Online sources==
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = July 2, 1951
| title = National Affairs: Anniversary Remembrance
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815031,00.html
| accessdate = July 25, 2012
}} {{subscription}}
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = August 27, 1951
| title = McCarthyism v. "Trumanism"
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815218-1,00.html
| accessdate = July 25, 2012
}} {{subscription}}
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = September 15, 1952
| title = Democrats: The Way West
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816934-1,00.html
| accessdate = September 4, 2012
}} {{subscription}}
* {{cite journal
| journal = Time
| date = November 30, 1953
| title = The White Case Record
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823119,00.html
| accessdate = September 1, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Fuchs
| first = James R.
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Oral History Interview with Edgar G. Hinde
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/hindeeg.htm
| accessdate = July 28, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
|last=Hess
|first=Jerry N.
|publisher=Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
|title=Oral History Interviews with Karl R. Bendetsen: General Counsel, Department of the Army, 1949; Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1950–52; Under Secretary of the Army, 1952
|work=Oral Archives
|url=http://www.korean-war.com/miakia.html
|date=November 21, 1972
|accessdate=July 28, 2012
|deadurl=yes
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824172134/http://www.korean-war.com/miakia.html
|archivedate=August 24, 2012
|df=mdy
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary/page21.htm
| date = July 21, 1947
| accessdate = July 27, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Full text of original copy of the order at the Truman library
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/9981.htm
| date = July 26, 1948
| accessdate = July 28, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
| title = Telegram, Joseph McCarthy to Harry S. Truman, February 11, 1950, with Truman's draft reply; McCarthy, Joseph; General File; PSF; Truman Papers
| url = http://www.trumanlibrary.org/exhibit_documents/index.php?pagenumber=1&titleid=203&tldate=1950-02-11&collectionid=mccarthy&PageID=-1&groupid=3435
| date = February 11, 1950
| accessdate = July 23, 2012
}}
* {{cite news
| last1 = Dana
| first1 = Rebecca
| last2 = Carlson
| first2 = Peter
| title = Harry Truman's Forgotten Diary
| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A40678-2003Jul10¬Found=true
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| date = July 11, 2003
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Donaldson
| first = Gary A.
| publisher = State of New Jersey
| title = Truman
| url = http://www.state.nj.us/military//korea/biographies/truman.html
| year = 1995
| accessdate = September 3, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Kennan
| first = George
| year = 1947
| title = The Sources of Soviet Conduct
| publisher = History Guide
| work = Lectures on 20th Century Europe
| url = http://www.historyguide.org/europe/kennan.html
| accessdate = September 1, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| title = Executive Order 9835 – Prescribing Procedures for the Administration of an Employees Loyalty Program in the Executive Branch of the Government
| publisher = University of California at Santa Barbara
| work = The American Presidency Project
| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75524&st=9835
| accessdate = September 3, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| last = Truman
| first = Harry S.
| title = Word Has Just Been Received: Truman Speaks on the Railroad Strike: 1948–1952
| publisher = [[George Mason University]]
| work = History Matters
| url = http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5137/
| accessdate = September 1, 2012
}}
===Audio and video sources===
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/medialist.php?presid=33 29 Audio/Video Clips of Harry Truman]
* [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/showfindingaid.cfm?findaidid=TrumanHS Audio clips of Truman's speeches]
===Truman on US postage stamps===
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = Harry S. Truman Issue
| date = May 8, 1973
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2034486
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = 20-cent Truman
| date = January 26, 1984
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2029377
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = Ameripex '86 Issue
| date = May 22, 1986
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=72455&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2037071
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = 1995 World War II Issue
| date = September 2, 1995
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=192010&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2043466
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
* {{cite web
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| title = 1940s Celebrate The Century Issues
| date = February 18, 1999
| url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2041393
| accessdate = July 22, 2012
}}
==Other bibliographies==
* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Truman,+Harry+S. Annotated bibliography for Harry S. Truman from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues]
* [[Bibliography of World War II]]
==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.c-span.org/video/?157020-1/last-campaign-harry-truman-won-1948-election ''Booknotes'' interview with Zachary Karabell on ''The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election'', June 4, 2000.]
* [https://www.c-span.org/video/?167668-1/harry-ike ''Booknotes'' interview with Steve Neal on ''Harry and Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World'', February 10, 2002.]
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