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"The Truman revival received a big boost in 1992 with the publication of David McCullough's bestselling biography, Truman....It is unfortunate that Robert Ferrell's thoughtful and well-researched biography follows so closely on the heels of McCullough's book. Ferrell, a distinguished historian at Indiana University, has spent most of his long professional career studying America's thirty-third president....Ferrell's Truman is more ambitious and possesses a few more warts than McCullough's, but he and McCullough agree that the former president was, in Ferrell's words, 'the right man for his time'."Ferrell, Robert H. is the author of 'Harry S. Truman A Life' with ISBN 9780826210500 and ISBN 0826210503.
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