Very Good condition, no DJ. First edition, later printing. Light Soiling on the text block. Gift inscription on the first leaf.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 46639
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.
Review: This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions.
Title: Truman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, 48th printing, 1116pp plus ads to rear. Interior clean, no marks except form owners name and notation at the top fore-corner of the ffep, binding tight. Rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners thumbed. Seller Inventory # 028687
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing Thus. softcover- 1st S&S/Touchstone printing 1993 (complete number line on copyright page). no spine crease. Pulitzer Prize winner. 1117 pages. Seller Inventory # 032316
Book Description Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. About the book: 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. Seller Inventory # 005435
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Soft cover book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Seller Inventory # 038506
Book Description Trade Size Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 41st Printing. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 1116 pages; Over sized heavy trade paperback very lightly rubbed at edges. Book solid and tight. Text block clean and pages tight. Previous owner gift note. Photos illustrate. Seller Inventory # 18072
Book Description Condition: very good. First Paperbk Printing. 1117, wraps, illus., source notes, bibliography, index, House of Representatives envelope of Rep. Barney Frank laid in. A monumental biography of an extraordinary president, Harry Truman--the man who brought the country solidly into the 20th century. Drawing from archival materials and extensive interviews, McCullough chronicles Truman's life, but it is Truman's emergence as a decisive and confident president that forms the heart of this book. Seller Inventory # 51472
Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: N-Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A very nice copy of a monster of a book,1116 pages. This is a square solid tight over-all clean un-read un-opened copy. This copy has some very light pagedge soil,very light edgewear to pictoral covers else fine. Pulitzer Prize winning auto-biography. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Book. Seller Inventory # 020649
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. Bacon, Paul (jacket design) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (6.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. The author's first novel, an incisive look at "live" network TV shows of the 1950s. This is subject Kanter knows well, since he was a writer for The Fred Allen Show, Amos 'n Andy; Danny Kaye; among others, as well as director of the TV serial, Julia. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Bacon, Paul (jacket design). 8vo. (viii), 248pp. Seller Inventory # 010543
Book Description Softcover. First Edition; Thirteenth Printing. Near Fine in wraps. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 2.0 inches; 1120 pages. Seller Inventory # 160590