The Buck Stops Here

The Buck Stops Here
Harry S. Truman was perhaps one of the most understated Presidents from recent history. Being a very remarkable man in his life and making some of the most important decisions of his time, he still displayed many characteristics that would be scoffed at in more recent years. He was not a college graduate and not very well off financially but in the end he was our nation’s leader.
Born in Lamar, Missouri,Truman was introduced into a life of farming where he earned a work ethic that would affect his decisions for the rest of his life. Truman was the kind of man that when he made a decision, he would stick to it. Later in his life he would join the army eventually becoming an artillery captain in WW1 where he would earn his metal as a person able to lead others. After leaving the army and working his way through many other jobs such as being a judge and a senator, he finally finds himself in the White House as Vice President to Roosevelt. On April 12thTruman became President after Roosevelt’s passing. Truman would end up making some of the most important decisions in recent American history such as dropping nuclear weapons on Japan to end the war, creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and entering the United States into the Korean War. He also worked as a civil rights activist by integrating the army and doing his best to make sure that blacks were treated fairly as they were due. Truman died the day after Christmas in 1972 leaving behind a legacy of greatness, and faith in the inherent greatness of America.
Throughout the biography Ferrell does a first-classjob of citing the progression of Truman’s life as well as list the best and worst traits that formed his presidency. I believe that his main reasons for writing the book were to informthe average American of a great man that is all too often a side note among others. History tends to focus on names such as Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt and Eisenhower where it should contain...