FIRST EDITION OF TRUMAN, SIGNED BY DAVID MCCULLOUGH
(TRUMAN, Harry) MCCULLOUGH, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of President Truman, boldly signed on the title page by the author. With over 45 pages of photographic illustrations.
McCullough’s “warm, affectionate and thoroughly captivating biography” of President Harry Truman earned the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for biography. On publication Truman won immediate praise as “the most thorough account of Truman’s life yet to appear… a sound, thorough narrative of the major events of the Truman Presidency” (New York Times). To McCullough, Harry Truman “brought to the highest office the language and values of the common people… a great and good man, and a great American President.”
A fine signed copy.