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Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of america, were Midwesterners similarly in many ways - except that they also sharply differed. Born within six many years of one another (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they originated from small cities in the Missouri-Mississippi River Valley - in the midst of cows and whole wheat, pigs and corn, and grain elevators. Both were grandsons of farmers and sons of forceful mothers, and of fathers who understood inability; both were lower middle income, received public-school educations, and were raised in low-church Protestant denominations. William Lee Miller interweaves Truman's and Eisenhower's life experiences, which then also becomes the storyline of their land as it rose to great electricity. They had contrasting activities in the fantastic Conflict - Truman, the haberdasher to be, led men in battle; Eisenhower, the supreme commander to be, didn't. Between your wars, Truman was the quintessential politician, and Eisenhower the thoroughgoing anti-politician. Truman understood both the successes and woes of the public life, while Eisenhower was sequestered in the peacetime Military. Then, in the wartime 1940s, both of these men were abruptly raised above a large number of others to be leaders of the great national initiatives. Miller details the hostile maneuvering and bickering at this time in 1952-53 when electricity was to be handed from one to the other and a person had to decide which hat to wear and who greeted whom. As chief executive, each coped with McCarthyism, the tormenting problems of contest, and the great issues of the rising Cold Conflict. They brought america into a fresh routine of world responsibility while being the first People in america to hold in their hands the magnificent power of weaponry capable of destroying civilization. Hearing their account is a reminder of the modern American account, of standard men interacting with extraordinary electricity.
