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Truman
by [TRUMAN] McCullough, David
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671456547
- ISBN 13
- 9780671456542
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with blue boards, black spine cloth, and silver gilt spine lettering; light shelf wear. Bright blue end papers. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings to note. Side text blocks show very light foxing. Contains several sections of glossy black & white photographs. A hefty volume at 1,117 numbered pages. Dust jacket very good; has been price clipped. * From the book jacket, ""Here at last is the first full-scale biography of Harry S. Truman, his life and times......Huge, ambitious, ten years in the writing, and perfectly realized.....an American masterpiece about that most American of presidents, ""the man from Missouri,"" the seemingly simple, ordinary man who in fact was always much more than met the eye ....""
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
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001219
- Title
- Truman
- Author
- [TRUMAN] McCullough, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0671456547
- ISBN 13
- 9780671456542
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Presidents - United States - Biography, Harry S Truman - 1884-1972, Presidents
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Countries & Cultures North America United States Americana
- History Western History United States History
- Social Sciences Ethnic Groups Jewish Studies Ethnic Biography
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