A Bibliography of Good Sources
for Basic Knowledge on Harry S. TrumanRobert J. Donovan. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.
Robert J. Donovan. Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
Robert H. Ferrell, editor. The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1980.
Robert H. Ferrell, editor. Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983.
Robert H. Ferrell. Harry S. Truman: A Life. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994
Robert H. Ferrell, editor. Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Alonzo L. Hamby. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
David McCullough. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Harry S. Truman. Memoirs. 2 vols. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955-1956.
Margaret Truman. Harry S. Truman. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1973.