Gosnell, Harold F. Papers

Dates: 1958-1980

Professor of political science

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

PRELIMINARY DRAFTS

Box 1

  • Outline and notes
  • Bibliography and notes
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 - Early Influence (2 folders)
  • Chapter 2 - Origin of interests
  • Chapter 3 - Formal education
  • Chapter 4 - Farming
  • Chapter 5 - Business and accounting skills

Box 2

  • Chapter 6 - Military
  • Chapter 7 - Bess
  • Chapter 8 - First candidacy, 1922
  • Chapter 9 - Political apprenticeship
  • Chapter 10 - County administration
  • Chapter 11 - Candidate for Senate
  • Chapter 12 - Junior Senator from Missouri
  • Chapter 13 - Legislative role as Junior Senator
  • Chapter 14 - 1940 Election

Box 3

  • Chapter 15 - Truman Committee
  • Chapter 16 - Politics as usual
  • Chapter 17 - Nominated for Vice President
  • Chapter 18 - Campaign for Vice President
  • Chapter 19 - 82 days as Vice President
  • Chapter 20 - The journey analyzed
  • Chapter II - 1 (sic) - The Roosevelt-Truman transition

Box 4

  • Chapter 21 - Learning diplomacy (2 folders)
  • Chapter 22 - Congress, 1946
  • Chapter 23 - Economic and social policies
  • Chapter 23 (sic) - Changes in the team and its organization, 1946-1948

Box 5

  • Chapter 24 - Relations with Byrnes
  • Chapter 25 - Changing personal popularity
  • Chapter 26 - Battling Republican opposition
  • Chapter 27 - The Truman Doctrine
  • Chapter 28 - The Marshall Plan, Germany and Israel
  • Chapter 29 - Nominated for a full term
  • Chapter 30 - Opposing candidates
  • Chapter 31 - The 1948 election campaign
  • Chapter 32 - The final team, 1949-1952

Box 6

  • Chapter 32 (sic) - Social and economic policies, 1948
  • Chapter 33 - NATO, Germany, China
  • Chapter 34 - Economic and social activities, 1951-1952
  • Chapter 34 - (sic) - Liberal leanings until the Korean War
  • Chapter 35 - 1950 Congressional elections
  • Chapter 36 - Korea and Japan (2 folders)
  • Chapter 37 - The 82nd Congress, 1951-1952
  • Chapter 38 - Investigations, scandals, security, and McCarthyism
  • Chapter 39 - Seeking a Democratic candidate for 1952

Box 7

  • Chapter 40 - Ike: the opposing candidate
  • Chapter 41 - Campaigning for Stevenson
  • Chapter 42 - Transition to Ike
  • Chapter 43 - Characteristic and performance during crisis (3 folders)
  • "First drafts"
FINAL DRAFT

Box 8

  • Index
  • Preface and Chapters 1-5
  • Chapters 6-10
  • Chapters 11-15
  • Chapters 16-20
  • Chapters 21-25
  • Chapters 26-30

Box 9

  • Chapters 31-35
  • Chapters 36-40
  • Chapters 41-43
  • Footnotes
  • Bibliography
CORRESPONDENCE FILE
  • Correspondence with Publishers, 1966-1978
  • Correspondence, general, relating to preparation of the book, 1958-1977
GOSNELL LIBRARY

Box 10

  • Index
  • Art
  • Cartoons (2 folders)
  • Comments by professionals on the book drafts
  • Daniels, Jonathan papers (3 folders)

Box 11

  • Dewey, Thomas E.
  • Elections, Missouri
  • General
  • Ickes, Harold W.
  • Interviews
  • Magazine articles
  • Maps
  • Military career
  • Neustadt, Richard E.
  • Newspaper articles, general
  • Newspapers, index to

Box 12

  • Newspaper-Independence Examiner
  • Persons to see
  • Photographs
  • Population statistics
  • Roosevelt Library material
  • Truman, Bess
  • Truman clippings and articles (2 folders)
  • Truman, Martha Ellen
  • Truman obituary
  • Truman, Post-Presidential

Box 13

  • Truman Speeches, 1944 campaign
  • Truman's men
BACKGROUND MATERIAL FROM TRUMAN LIBRARY
  • Papers of Oscar Chapman
  • Papers of Clark Clifford
  • Clippings file, Democratic National Committee
  • Papers of George Elsey
  • Papers of Tom L. Evans
  • Files of Kenneth Hechler
  • Files of Frederick J. Lawton
  • Files of David D. Lloyd
  • Papers of J. Howard McGrath
  • Papers of Frank McNaughton
  • Miscellaneous collections
  • Papers of Charles Murphy

Box 14

  • Official File (2 folders)
  • Oral Histories (3 folders)
  • Papers of Charles G. Ross
  • Papers of Stephen J. Spingarn
BOOK REVIEWS
  • Reviews of Truman's Crises - copies
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