"Taps into the Truman era in a way no other book has. It is a grand collection, lively, full of surprise, insight, humor, and humanity. In all, a very welcome event." --David McCullough
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His mail reflected the turbulent, dynamic postwar nation he inherited.... His folksy shoot-from-the-hip manner encouraged many more letters than he could read, or answer. -- The New York Times Book Review, Stanley Weintraub
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D. M. Giangreco, served as an editor at Military Review, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for 20 years. Giangreco has lectured widely on national security matters. An award-winning author of 12 books on military and sociopolitical subjects, he has also written extensively for various national and international publications and news agencies. Giangreco was awarded the Society for Military History's 1998 Moncado Prize for his article "Casualty Projections for the US Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications." Giangreco also won the Gerard Gilbert Award (1988 France and Colonies Philatelic Society) for his book Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Posts, and his article "The Truth About Kamikazes," was the principal nomination of US Naval Institute, Annapolis, for the Association of Naval Aviation's award for Best Article of 1997 on Naval Aviation. Giangreco's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Russian (pirated), Japanese, and Chinese. His most recent books are, Dear Harry on the correspondence of "Everyday Americans" with the Truman White House (2000), Artillery in Korea: Massing Fires and Reinventing the Wheel (2003), the Eyewitness series for Barnes & Noble Books -- Eyewitness D-Day (2004), Eyewitness Vietnam (2006), Eyewitness Pacific Theater (2008), and most recently, Hell to Pay (2009), and The Soldier from Independence (2009).
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The sun had already dipped well behind the tall poplars as the elderly man in a white fedora and crisp, gray, double-breasted suit strode across the avenue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nut mail, commemorative scroll, egg rolling, reading folder, sincerely yours, executive clerk, correspondence secretary, south portico Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, President Truman, United Nations, Kansas City, Soviet Union, Harry Truman, Alger Hiss, Navy Department, Secret Service, Los Angeles, Bill Hassett, Democratic Party, General Douglas, Great Britain, War Department, Air Force, Baptist Church, Dean Acheson, Near East, New Mexico, North Korean, Philleo Nash, Washington Post, Charlie Ross New!
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United States, New York, President Truman, United Nations, Kansas City, Soviet Union, Harry Truman, Alger Hiss, Navy Department, Secret Service, Los Angeles, Bill Hassett, Democratic Party, General Douglas, Great Britain, War Department, Air Force, Baptist Church, Dean Acheson, Near East, New Mexico, North Korean, Philleo Nash, Washington Post, Charlie Ross New!
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- Dear Mr. President by Don Wallace on 5 pages
- Plain speaking: an oral biography of harry s. truman by Merle Miller on 4 pages
- Dear Mr. President by Students of Sunny Sands Elementary School on page 175, page 189, and page 375
- The Oxford History of the American People, Vol. 3: 1869 Through the Death of John F. Kennedy by Samuel Eliot Morison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Atomic Energy (Merit badge series) by Boy Scouts of America on page 322, and page 325
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