title: Джеймс Бірнс – Державний секретар і політичний суперник Гаррі Трумена.
abstract: The article is dedicated to one of the secretaries of state of the United States of America, James Byrnes, a man who had had such a diverse and career history in US political life. The author provides a historiographical analysis of the few works that deal with the life and activities of American politicians, and, with some emphasis, is made on the memoirs of J. Byrnes and G. Truman, key figures in this study. Methodological basis of the study were methods of system analysis and synthesis, probl
journal: Історичні і політологічні дослідження