The Reluctant President

It's 1947. The postwar world is in crisis. The Soviet Union seeks to gain control of a world whose cities lie in ruins, its people starving. Civil war rages in China. A Middle Eastern war seems inevitable.

The United States is the only nation able to counter Communist advances if one man, the president of the United States, stands firm. But the president is dead, and there is no vice president to replace him.

Next in line is a man who belongs to no party. He is universally recognized as a per...