Ferrell, Robert H.: Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books, March, 2006 by Kodosky, Robert J.
Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists Columbia: University of Missouri Press 142 pp., $29.00, ISBN 0-8262-1653-6 Publication Date: April 2006
"Give 'em hell," Professor Ferrell! Robert H. Ferrell, professor emeritus of history at Indiana University in Bloomington and author of numerous books, including Harry S. Truman: A Life, takes on all corners in his Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. The eminent historian calls out his subject's detractors by gathering six of his previously published essays in one place to "celebrate the president from Independence, Missouri." Ferrell's aim here is no secret; he considers Truman "one of the most clearheaded, farsighted presidents" in American history (viii). He openly laments that in...
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