Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World

by Lawrence J. Haas

Book Overview

With Franklin Roosevelt's death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America's new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight, bipartisan partnership at a bitterly partisan time to craft a dramatic new foreign policy through which the United States stepped boldly onto the world stage to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612348122
• ISBN13: 9781612348124
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"