Heroes are often defined as ordinary individuals who face extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen by President Roosevelt as his fourth-term Vice President for his admired work ethic, good judgement and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary guy from small-town America. Until, that is, he was thrust in over his head following Roosevelt’s sudden death and sworn in as the thirty-third President of the United States. With the world still caught up in the inferno of the Second World War, Truman had to play both judge and jury during the founding of the United Nations, the Potsdam Conference, the Manhattan Project, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of the concentration camps and the decision to use the Bomb and bring the war to the end. Meticulously researched and thrillingly told, The Accidental President takes readers into the White House situation room in the company of Truman and his team during these history-making 120 days – a time when the stakes were high, the challenges even higher and the fate of the world was hanging in the balance.