American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It

A fast-paced and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event-the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, DC, that saved the president's life.

November 1, 1950, was an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 PM in his temporary residence at Blair House, President Harry Truman took a nap. At 2:20 PM, two men approached Blair House from differen...