The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman

The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman
Author: Raymond H. Geselbracht
Publisher: Truman State Univ Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Based in part on the Second Truman Legacy Symposium, Harry Truman and civil rights, 14-15 May 2004, Key West, Florida."--P. [ii].

Dear Bess

Dear Bess
Author: Harry S. Truman
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826212030

This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.

Wild Justice

Wild Justice
Author: Michael Lieder
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

The untold story of how the Chiricahua Apache tribe won a $22 million settlement against the U.S. government that had imprisoned tribal members for 23 years. In 1947 President Truman established the Indian Claims Commission. WILD JUSTICE is a history of that extraordinary tribunal and the efforts of Native American tribes to obtain restitution from it.