The accidental president Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World.

"[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."-Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times "A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color."-Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their pl...