Prelude to the Fifties

A Bibliography


Diggins, John Patrick. The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace. New York: Norton,1988.

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

Donovan, Robert J. Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953. New York: Norton, 1982.

Goulden, Joseph G. The Best Years 1945-1950. New York: Antheneum, 1976.

Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard Books, 1993.

Hamby, Alonzo L. Man Of The People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford, 1995.

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

Manchester, William. The Glory and The Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

O'Neill, William L. American High: The Years of Confidence 1945-1960. New York: Free Press, 1986.

Perrett, Geoffrey. A Dream of Greatness: The American People 1954-1963. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979.

Phillips, Cabel. The Truman Presidency. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Phillips, Cabel. The 1940s: Decade of Triumph and Trouble. New York: Macmillan, 1975.

Rose, Lisle A. The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.