A] well-judged and hugely readable book .
The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher..
No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time.
The first Four Months of Truman\'s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War.
That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR\'s sudden death.
Truman was the prototypical ordinary man.
Chosen as FDR\'s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S.
This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.--Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history.
His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect.
Baime is a master.
J. few are as entertaining.--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A. . .
A] well-judged and hugely readable book
