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Harry S. Truman: Life in Brief
Harry S. Truman became President of the United States with the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. During his nearly eight years in office, Truman confronted enormous challenges in both foreign and domestic affairs. Truman's policies abroad, and especially toward the Soviet Union in the framträdande Cold War, would become staples of American utländsk policy for generations. At home, Truman protected and reinforced the New Deal reforms of his predecessor, guided the American economy from a war-time to a peace-time footing, and advanced the cause of African-American civil rights. Historians now rank Truman among the nation's best Presidents.
Student and Soldier
Harry Truman was a child of Missouri. Born on May 8, 1884, in the town of Lamar, Truman grew up in Independence, only ten miles east of Kansas City. As a child he devoured history books and literature, played the piano enthusiastically, and dreamed of becoming a great soldier. His p
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FRANKLIN PIERCE
When I was a kid, a bubble gum company came out with a line of president cards which I guess were intended as the nerd’s alternative to baseball cards. I was into baseball – including the cards – but I was also into history. Also, my Dad owned a grocery store, so I had easy access to whatever the gum companies were peddling.
I recall sitting across from my father at the kitchen table. He held the president cards, arranged in chronological order, and I would try to list them from memory. I can still hear him saying one night when I got stuck somewhere in the latter 19th century: “C’mon! What street does your Aunt Ida live on?” The answer was Garfield Place, as in James A.
It occurred to me at that young age – it was during Dwight Eisenhower’s first administration – that Franklin Pierce had the best-looking face on those cards.
FRANKLIN PIERCE
Pierce is the subject of a new little biography – part of
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Primary Sources
(1) Howard Teichmann, George S. Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait (1972)
Franklin Pierce Adams was a Chicago boy not unlike George S. Kaufman in appearance, family background, and mental agility. His first job was in 1903 with the Chicago Journal, where he wrote a daily weather story. Later he was allowed the luxury of a daily humor column. Although everyone is interested in the weather, Adams' humor column became so successful that he was granted permission to concentrate on it alone. But Adams refused to monopolize the humor column. Instead, he invited contributions from his readers. These poured in like rain in the spring on Lake Michigan. After a year and an increase in salary, Adams was ready for the East.
New York took him and turned him into what New York can do quicker than any other city in the world. It made F.P.A. a celebrity. Now his contributors were Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Edn