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 ...

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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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Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman, by Aida D. Donald (Basic Books, 288 pp., $26.99) One reason Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was Biden’s standing in the public mind ...