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BOOKS David McCullough's Truman is rich and sweeping...
...reluctantly laying down his plow to spend a few years cleaning up his government is deeply appealing to most Americans, especially now during this open season on professional politicians. Such sentiments account for the burst of enthusiasm greeting Ross Perot and for the best-sellerdom that inevitably awaits David McCullough's loving and richly detailed megabiography of Truman...
Indeed, Truman represented one of the last great triumphs of old-fashioned politics, and McCullough's tome serves as a reminder of how well the system worked in the bad old days before reformers blessed the nation with openness and primaries. In one of the most vivid of this book's procession of vivid tales, McCullough recounts how the Democratic bosses and party elders -- led by Ed Flynn of the Bronx -- concluded in 1944 that Franklin Roosevelt was unlikely to survive another term and that the overly progressive Henry Wallace had to be dumped from the ticket. In the proverbial...
...David Willis McCullough...
...truly appreciate what McCullough has done with Quarryville, it may be necessary to live in Westchester county or know someone who does. He has perfectly captures the issues that dominate drawing-room conversations along the Hudson River: land development, the environment, an imagined artistic past and who is sleeping with whom...