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 ...

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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 ...

Harry Truman had the most difficult act to follow of any American president of the 20th Century. And nobody did it better. The scrappy little man from Missouri who succeeded the legendary Franklin D.

As a biography of the 33rd president of the United States, Roy Jenkins’ Truman is anything but definitive. It is not a product of either prodigious original research or close personal access.Jenkins ...

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, ...