In Whose Interest?
Thomas Meaney: Truman’s Plan, 6 December 2018
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World
by A.J. Baime.
Doubleday, 431 pp., £20, February 2018,978 0 85752 366 2 Show More
by A.J. Baime.
Doubleday, 431 pp., £20, February 2018,
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
by Benn Steil.
Oxford, 606 pp., £25, March 2018,978 0 19 875791 7 Show More
by Benn Steil.
Oxford, 606 pp., £25, March 2018,
“... criminal underworld. The Kansas City of his youth was known for its card sharks and conmen. Jesse James was not long dead and the murder rate outstripped Chicago’s. But it was also a town preoccupied with respectability. Farm boys on the make wore suits, mob bosses dined early with their families in ersatz châteaux and the legendary jazz scene – Truman ... ”