Dear Harry - Paperback

by D. M. Giangreco (Author), Kathryn Moore (Author)

In Dear Harry, authors D. M. Giangreco and Kathryn Moore include a robust cross section of the thousands of messages sent to Truman. Juxtaposed with informative background essays, these letters provide an undiluted account of the greatest challenges confronting the U.S. during Truman's administration, including civil rights, the Marshall Plan, the formation of Israel, the atomic bomb, the McCarthy hearings, the Korean War, and the General McArthur's dismissal, which alone solicited more than 90,000 missives. While the majority of the letters are from private citizens, a sprinkling also come from the occasional bombastic senator and a few from the world figures, such as Winston Churchill (who liked to offer advice) and Chaim Weizmann. The names of some correspondents, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Upton Sinclair, Gene Tunney, would have been familiar to many of their fellow Americans, while others as diverse as Morey Amsterdam and Barry Goldwater would be better known to future generations.

Author Biography

Award-winning author D. M. Giangreco is an editor for the U. S. Army's professional journal, Military Review, and the author of numerous military history books. His most recent award was the Moncado Prize by the Society of Military History for his article, "Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945: Planning and Policy Implications."
Kathryn Moore, formerly a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, teaches and has written on the Thomas Jefferson DNA findings in The Washington Times. Dear Harry is her first book and she is currently working on First Lady of Monticello, a biography of Martha Jefferson.