Truman.

MCCULLOUGH, David.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 146839

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

First edition of the historian’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed with a quote by the author on the title page, “For John Rogers with greetings from David McCullough ‘Ambitious by nature, he was never torn by ambition, never tried to be something he was not. He stood for common sense, common decency.'” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor. A unique example.

Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of the thirty-third President of the United States. Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American. "A warm, affectionate and thoroughly captivating biography....the most thorough account of Truman's life yet to appear" (Alan Brinkley, The New York Times Book Review).