Reviews

From The Times Crunch time: Churchill, Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam conference, 1945. GETTY IMAGES Although there are plenty of good biographies of Truman, few are as entertaining as Baime’s, which focuses on the four months between his unexpected accession and the end of the war with Japan. On the morning of April 12, 1945, Harry Truman got up as usual, dropped his daughter at school and went to the office. He had little to do, and passed his time arranging a poker game

From Goodreads Tightly focused, meticulously researched, and using documents not available to previous biographers The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikely, small-town Washington outsider had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and