Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 93: February, 1993
Editor: The Convocation ceremony, dur ing which Harry Truman was presented to the class of '96 as a paragon, is one of those circumstances that precipitates thoughts in many directions (what Is It about Harry Truman? October). What is a university for? Is it to train young people or to liberate them? Trained to take over as their elders retire, keeping the train on track? It is David Mccullough's job as a biographer to record what was. So here the class of '96 is exposed to what was. For the next four years are they only to learn about what was and what is? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
