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Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman by Aida Donald

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published November 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM EST

When Harry S. Truman left the White House in 1953, his reputation was in ruins. In Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman

, Aida Donald shows that, for all his failings, Truman deserves recognition as the principal architect of the American postwar world.

Aida D. Donald is the author of Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt. She holds a Ph.D. in American history and has taught at Columbia University. Formerly she was editor-in-chief of Harvard University Press.
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