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Truman
by McCullough, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671456547
- ISBN 13
- 9780671456542
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. 0671456547 . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1120 pages; [SIGNED] 1992 Simon & Schuster. Stout HC/DJ 15th printing. Inscribed and signed by McCullough on the title page and dated 4/7/93 at Franklin nad Marshall College where he appeared at a public speaking engagement. News clipping from the local paper regarding the event laidf in at front. Snugly bound and neat in original color pictorial dust jacket, price clipped front flap. Superficial ripple to cloth at spine and just very mild shelf evidence to jacket edges. VG++/VG++; Signed by Author .
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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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53762
- Title
- Truman
- Author
- McCullough, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Fifteenth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0671456547
- ISBN 13
- 9780671456542
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0671456547
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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