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Truman
by McCullough, David
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671456547
- ISBN 13
- 9780671456542
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Truman by David McCullough, inscribed by the author to philanthropist and Marshall Plan advocate, Cabell Brand.. Octavo, 1117pp. Illustrated paperback. This copy appears lightly read, faint shelf wear to both covers. Ownership sticker on rear endpaper from Hollins College. Inscribed by the author: "For Cabell Brand, who was part of the story in Berlin - All the best. David McCullough. Hollins College. Oct. 1993." This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by author and historian David McCullough is part of a series of works that have helped to rehabilitate the legacy of President Harry Truman. Recent historians consider Truman's time in office as one of the most consequential in American history, often ranking him in the upper tier of Presidents.
Synopsis
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history. - from the publisher
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- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11915
- Title
- Truman
- Author
- McCullough, David
- Illustrator
- Truman by David McCullough, inscribed by the author to philanthropist and Marshall Plan advocate, Cabell Brand.
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671456547
- ISBN 13
- 9780671456542
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- first edition David McCullough, signed book David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, Truman, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, The Wright Brothers, Truman, John Ad
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