His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. although there are plenty of good biographies of Truman, few are as entertaining as Baime’s." -Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times "A.J. Baime’s zippy, well-judged and hugely readable book more than does it justice. "The story of Truman’s accession to the presidency is worthy of a Hollywood melodrama, and A.J. few are as entertaining.” -Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 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. A hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman’s first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power-marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in American history.Ĭhosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S.
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