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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2007
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Presidential Leadership
From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman

By Robert H. Ferrell
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 168. Illustrations, notes, sources. $29.95.)

Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists

By Robert H. Ferrell
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 142. Photographs, notes, sources, index. $24.95.)

Robert H. Ferrell's two new books explore topics that he has studied for decades: the qualities that distinguish the American presidency in general and the career and reputation of Harry S. Truman in particular. I have had the pleasure and honor of knowing Ferrell for nearly 20 years, ever since I took his diplomatic history course at Indiana University in the spring of 1987. I remember him saying then that people would eventually come around to his view of Truman as one of the top two presidents (the other being Lincoln) in U.S. history. To the extent that they have, that shift in reputation may owe much to Ferrell's own prolific writings on the man: writing done, as I later learned, through a diligent regimen that included placing a towel under the door of his seventh-floor Ballantine Hall office each morning so that no one could see that he was there working. . . .
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