Friday, March 4, 2016

Forbes: Truman's Forgotten Economic Crisis

By SIMON CONSTABLE
President Harry S. Truman is famous for many great lines, including one of my favorites: ”I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
What perhaps isn’t so well known is the economic turmoil his administration had to navigate as peace broke out.
Kenneth Weisbrode reveals that story, as well as other parts of the first post-war year, in his new book: The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman’s America. It was published in March. 
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