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Book Review
| Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell. Ed. by J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xii, 350 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1747-9.)
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| Any festschrift appropriately honoring the distinguished chronicler of American history Robert H. Ferrell would need to display as wide a set of interests as he has, with his publications on subjects ranging from the Kellogg-Briand Pact to the personality of Harry S. Truman. And so this collection of essays does, exploring subjects as diverse as Abraham Lincoln and slavery, American diplomatic representatives in Nicaragua in the mid-1920s, and the influence of Ronald Reagan's film career on his presidency. |
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