Author David McCullough is just wild about Harry. Harry S. Truman, McCullough concludes at the end of his epic but enjoyable biography of our 33rd president, was “a great and good man, and a great ...

A product of machine politics who didn’t go to college, failed at business and wasn’t a gifted speaker, Harry Truman did not seem like presidential material 70 years ago. Nor, decades later, did ...

The big book of summer definitely is Truman, a thousand-page biography of our 33rd president. The plain-speaking man from Missouri belatedly won American hearts, and political scholars and historians ...

1,117 pages. $30. The 1980 Republican convention was out of control. From his perch in the CBS anchor booth, Walter Cronkite was brokering a deal that would put former President Gerald R. Ford on the ...

President FDR's fourth-term Vice President Harry S. Truman was "the prototypical ordinary man." That is, until FDR's sudden death thrust him into extraordinary circumstances during the climactic ...

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2008-12-15T09:01:54-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1b3/282877-06-m.jpgRobert Dallek talked about the political career and the Presidential tenure of Harry ...

The appetite for presidential biographies is insatiable. It does not have to be Washington, Lincoln, or Roosevelt. Years ago, I walked into an airport bookstore that was featuring, right in front, ...