Biographies and politics of the Early Cold war

Biographies, politics, and memoirs

Abell, Tyler, ed. Drew Pearson Diaries, 1949-1959. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974.

Adams, Sherman. Firsthand Report: The Story of the Eisenhower Administration. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961.

Alexander, Charles. Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1975.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: Solider, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.

___. Eisenhower: The President. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

D'Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

Donovan, Robert. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.

___. Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Mandate for Change: The White House Years. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963.

Frederickson, Kari. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Greenstein, Fred I. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1982.

Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Karabell, Zachary. The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Lyon, Peter. Eisenhower: Portrait of a Hero. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Merry, Robert W. Taking On The World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop--Guards of the of the American Century. New York: Viking, 1996.

Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1973. 

Mitchell, Greg. Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas-- Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950. New York: Random House, 1998.

Neal, Steve. Harry and Ike: The Partnership that Remade the Postwar World. New York: Scribner, 2001.

Parmet, Herbert S. Eisenhower and the American Crusades. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Perret, George. Eisenhower. New York: Random House, 1999.

Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

Phillips, Cabell, The Truman Presidency: The History of a Triumphant Succession. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Whyte, William S. The Taft Story. New York: Harper and Row, 1954.

Yoder, Edwin M., Jr. Joe Alsop's Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.