![]() ![]() Truman (1994), Alonzo Hamby's Man of the People (1995), and especially David McCullough's Pulitzer prize-winning Truman (1992), have reinforced such sentiments by presenting a generally laudatory portrait of the thirty-third president. ![]() On the scholarly front, several recent biographies of Truman, Robert Ferrell's Harry S. Not surprisingly, presidential aspirants of the two major political parties have been quick to claim Truman as their own. For many, the down-to-earth Midwesterner now merits consideration as one of the greatest American presidents. A president who left office with public approval ratings lower even than Richard Nixon's in the midst of the Watergate crisis is now widely considered to have been a tough-minded, decisive, and effective leader who ably guided the United States through the perilous waters of the early Cold War and whose policy of containment essentially laid the foundations for American "victory" in that prolonged conflict. The reputation of Harry S Truman has undergone something of a resurgence among both scholars and the public at large. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War. Harry Truman as Parochial Nationalist Richard V. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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