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    ‘Decent’ Harry Truman, thrust into the presidency, kept US afloat in wartime

    by Steve Donoghue Mar 29, 2022 2 minutes

    Jeffrey Frank’s new book “The Trials of Harry Truman” takes a different tack than David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning doorstop “Truman” that became a bestseller 30 years ago. Frank doesn’t spend any time on Truman’s service in World War I or his stint as an enterprising haberdasher in Kansas City. This book isn’t concerned with the making of a man – it’s concerned with the making of a president.

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