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Harry S. Truman Library

Harry Truman Working at a Desk


This Library is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Robert Thompson. Dr. Thompson served many roles at Indiana State University, including Executive Vice President of the University Foundation, Interim Vice President of University Advancement, Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs, Director of University Community Relations, Director of Marketing, and Professor of Marketing. His years of dedicated service to the campus was greatly appreciated by his Indiana State University colleagues, and his commitment to student success and education is remembered by hundreds of his former students. 

The Harry S. Truman Library was generously donated by a classmate of Dr. Thompson to the ISU Department of Political Science. It is open to students and scholars alike interested in studying President Truman. The library contains selected newspaper clippings and books. Some of the Library’s content is as follows: 

BOOKS ON HARRY S. TRUMAN AND HIS ERA

  1. Year of Decisions, 1945, volume 1, Harry S. Truman
  2. Years of Trial and Hope, 1946-1952, volume 2, Harry S. Truman
  3. The Man of Independence, Jonathan Daniels
  4. Man of the People, Alonzo L. Hamby
  5. Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell
  6. Truman, David McCullough
  7. Conflict and Crisis, Robert J. Donovan
  8. Tumultuous Years, Robert J. Donovan
  9. Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman
  10. Truman, Roy Jenkins
  11. Off the Record, The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman, edited by Robert H. Ferrell
  12. Truman the Rise to Power, Richard Lawrence Miller
  13. Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell [small paperback]
  14. The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell
  15. Mr. Citizen, Harry S. Truman
  16. From Yalta to Panmunjom, Truman's Diplomacy and the Four Powers, 1945-1953, HUA Quingzhao
  17. The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman, Edited by Raymond H. Geselbracht
  18. Harry Truman and Civil Rights, Moral Courage and Political Risks, Michael R. Gardne
  19. Harry Truman and the Crisis Presidency, Bert Cochran
  20. Last of His Kind, Charles Robbins
  21. This Man Truman, Frank McNaughton and Walter Hehmeyer
  22. Harry Truman and the Human Family, Frank K. Kelly
  23. The Truman Presidency, Cabell Phillips
  24. Bess W. Truman, Margaret Truman
  25. Dear Bess, The Letters of Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959, edited by Robert H. Ferrell

  1. Dear Harry, From Bess, Clifton Truman Daniel
  2. The Marshall Plan, Charles L. Mee, Jr.
  3. The Most Noble Adventure, the Marshall Plan and When America Helped Save Europe,  Greg Behrman
  4. Harry S. Truman and the Fair Deal, Alonzo L. Hamby
  5. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism, Richard M. Freeland
  6. Working With Truman, Ken Hechler
  7. An Uplanned Life, George Elsey
  8. The Soldier from Independence, D.M. Giangreco
  9. Citizen Soldier, Aida D. Donald
  10. Acheson, James Chace
  11. Present at the Creation, Dean Acheson
  12. Affection and Trust, The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953- 1971, Introduction by David McCullough
  13. From Roosevelt to Truman, Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
  14. The Wise Men, Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
  15. The First Cold Warrior, Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal  Internationalism, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding
  16. Another Such Victory, President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953, Arnold A. Offner
  17. Harry S. Truman Versus the Medical Lobby, The Genesis of Medicare, Monte M. Poen
  18. American Gunfight, Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge, Jr.
  19. George F. Kennan, John Lewis Gaddis
  20. The Working White House, text by Hayes Johnson; photos by Frank Johnston
  21. Harry and Ike, Steve Neal
  22. Churchill at War 1940-45, Lord Moran
  23. The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester and Paul Reid
  24. Truman Defeats Dewey, Gary A. Donaldson
  25. The Upset That Wasn't, Harold I. Gulian 

  1. 1948, David Pietrusza
  2. The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell
  3. Truman & Pendergast, Robert H. Ferrell
  4. The Most Controversial Decision, Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
  5. Truman's Dilemma, Paul D. Walker
  6. Prompt & Utter Destruction, J. Samuel Walker
  7. Downfall, Richard B. Frank
  8. Genius in the Shadows, William Lanouette
  9. A Safe Haven, Allis Raddosh and Ronald Raddosh
  10. Truman and Noyes, Sidney O. Krasnoff
  11. The Crucial Decade-and After, Eric F. Goldman
  12. Iron Curtain, Anne Applebaum
  13. On The Edge of the Cold War, Igor Lukes
  14. Meeting at Potsdam, Charles L. Mee, jr.
  15. Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder
  16. Prague Winter, Madeleine Albright
  17. Don't You Know There's a War On?, Richard R. Lingeman
  18. Honorable Survivor, Lynne Joiner
  19. Truman and the Russians, Herbert Druks
  20. The National Security Legacy of Harry S. Truman, proceedings of 2003 Truman Legacy Symposium [TLS]
  21. Congress and Harry S. Truman, a Conflict Legacy, proceedings of 2009 TLS
  22. Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, proceedings of 2005 TLS
  23. Retribution, Max Hastings
  24. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky, James E. St. Clair and Linda C Gugin
  25. Harry's Farewell, introduction and edited by Richard S. Kirkendall

  1. Presidential Courage, Michael Beschloss
  2. The Conquerors, Michael Beschloss
  3. The President as Leader, Erwin C. Hargrove
  4. Eleanor and Harry, edited by Steve Neal
  5. Plain Speaking, Merle Miller
  6. Strictly Personal and Confidential, edited by Monte M. Poen
  7. The Words of Harry S Truman, selected by Robert J. Donovan
  8. The Memorable Words of The Man from Missouri, selected and arranged by Ted Sheldon
  9. The Trumans, Cass R. Sanduk
  10. The Quotable Harry S. Truman, edited by T. S. Settel & Staff of Quote
  11. Truman in Cartoon and Caricature, James N. Giglio
  12. Harry S Truman a Pictorial Biography, Joseph Gies
  13. The Quotable Truman, edited by David Gallen
  14. A Pictorial Biography HST, text by David S. Thomson
  15. "Give 'Em Hell Harry", Samuel Gallus
  16. Foreign Aid and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, edited by Raymond H. Geselbracht. Vol. 10 of  the Truman Legacy Series. Based on the Tenth Truman legacy Symposium, National Security,  May 2012, Key West, Florida
  17. George Marshall, a biography, Debi and Irwin Unger with Stanley Hirshson
  18. Selling the Korean War, Steven Casey
  19. Harry & Arthur, Lawrence J. Haas
  20. The Year of Indecision, 1946, Kenneth Weisbrode
  21. Killing the Rising Sun, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
  22. 1946 The Making of the Modern World, Victor Sebestyen
  23. The Candy Bombers, Andrei Cherny
  24. The Berlin Airlift, Jon Sutherland & Diane Canwell
  25. Implacable Foes, War in the Pacific 1944-1945, Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio 

  1. The Accidental President, A. J. Baime
  2. The Marshal Plan-Dawn of the Cold War, Benn Steil
  3. The General vs. the President, H. W. Brands
  4. A Preponderance of Power, Melvyn P. Leffler
  5. A Force So Swift, Mao, Truman and the Birth of Modern China, 1949, Keven Peraino
  6. The Allies, Winston Groom
  7. The Presidential Character, James David Barber
  8. The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, Donald R. McCoy
  9. Truman’s Dilemma, Invasion or The Bomb, Paul D. Walker
  10. Countdown, Chris Wallace
  11. Dewey Defeats Truman, A. J. Baime
  12. Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough
  13. Israel’s Moment, Jeffrey Herf
  14. The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind, Martin Sixsmith
  15. Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany, Christian Ostermann
  16. In the Shadow of FDR, William E. Leuchtenburg
  17. Brother Truman, Allen E. Roberts
  18. Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine, Denise Bostdorff
  19. The Truman Era 1945-1952, I.F. Stone
  20. The Awesome Power, Richard F. Haynes
  21. Truman’s Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America, Andrew E. Busch
  22. Mr. Truman’s War: The Final Victories of World War II and the Birth of the Postwar World, J. Robert Moskin
  23. The Truman White House: The Administration of the Presidency, 1945 – 1953, Francis Howard Heller
  24. The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945 – 1953, Jeffrey Frank
  25. Harry Truman's Independence: The Center of the World by Jon Taylor

  1. Truman's Grandview Farm by Jon Taylor
  2. Road to Surrender by Evan Thomas
  3. From Failure To President by Clifton Truman Daniel
  4. Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman-from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs
  5. In the Shadow of Fear: American and the World in 1950 by Nick Bunker
  6. A Cross of Iron by Michael J. Hogan
  7. Dear Harry: Letters to President Truman by D. M. Giangreco and Kathryn Moore
  8. Advocating for Israel by Natan Aridan
  9. Envoy: The Untold Story of the Right-Hand Man of FDR and Truman by Susan S. Robert
  10. The Cold War Comes to Main Street by Lisle A. Rose
  11. Ascent to Power by David L. Roll
  12. The Lost Peace by Robert Dallek
  13. The Watchdog by Steve Drummond
  14. The United States in World Affairs by John C. Campbell
  15. The Highest Calling by David Rubenstein
  16. Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict by John Judis
  17. My Three Years in Moscow by Walter Bedell Smith
  18. The Fifteen Weeks by Joseph Marion Jones
  19. War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission by Charles Sweeney, James A. Antonucci, and Marion K. Antonucci
  20. Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration by Donald R. McCoy & Richard T. Ruetten
  21. The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military by Rawn James, Jr.
  22. The Man From Missouri: The Life and Times of Harry Truman by Alfred Steinberg
  23. The Truman Scandals by Jules Abels
  24. Truman and Israel by Michael J. Cohen
  25. Zion & State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel by Mitchell Cohen

  1. Truman Speaks by Harry S. Truman
  2. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists by Robert H. Ferrell
  3. Harry Truman: A Political Biography by William P. Helm
  4. The Making of a Leader by Josiah Bunting III