Articles by
Kathryn Moore
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Other books by
Kathryn Moore
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Dear
Harry. . .
Truman's Mailroom,
1945-1953
The Truman Administration
through Correspondence with
"Everyday Americans"
Foreword by George M.
Elsey
512 pages with Correspondence
and General indices -
$34.95
"Truman's White House mail room
was a town meeting. In Dear
Harry the reader listens
in!"
--- Stanley Weintraub in
The New York Times Book Review,
October 24, 1999, 47.
"Dear
Harry taps into the Truman
era in a way no other book has.
It is a grand collection, lively
full of surprise, insight, humor
and humility. In all, a very
welcome event."
--- David McCullough (author
of Truman)
"Dear
Harry presents fascinating
examples of the vox populi
carefully selected and tied
together by the authors'
engaging commentary. . . . The
pages are enlivened by
well-crafted examples of the
transitory nature of many causes
celebres--- such as the flap
over the addition of the "Truman
balcony" to the White House ---
and the enduring nature of
certain issues such as race
relations."
--- Larry Bland (editor,
Papers of George C. Marshall)
"A splendid read. . . . The
accompanying text is clear,
interpretative, and well worth
reading in its own right.
Readers will find more than a
few surprises such as the
discovery of an exchange between
Truman and his senior advisors
on the possibility that the
planned invasion of Japan could
cost up to 1,000,000 American
lives."
--- Robert James Maddox
(author, Weapons for Victory)
"The range
of letters that the editors have
addressed is remarkable, and
they not merely have divided
letters into topical categories
but annotated them --- this is
no simple compellation, one
letter after another. . . . Here
is new material, wonderfully
edited and well worth reading.
It has been in the Truman
Library all these years, open
and waiting for the editors, and
how fortunate it is that two
careful scholars have made it
available. This handsome volume
is introduced by the former
Truman staffer George M. Elsey,
bringing further distinction to
a first-rate book."
--- Robert H. Ferrell,
author of Dear Bess, and
editor of Truman's private
papers, in Rhetoric and
Public Affairs, Spring
2000.
Eyewitness D-Day
First Hand Accounts from
the Landing at Normandy to the
Liberation of Paris
Foreword by Norman
Polmar -
260 pages -
$19.95
"One of the
most authoritative and
scrupulously researched books on
D-Day ever published."
--- Tom Allen, author and
National Geographic Society
lecturer on D-Day
"A unique
combination of sharp historical
narrative, revealing personal
testimony, and a remarkable
collection of dramatic
photographs that bring to life
the landings at Normandy and the
drive across France."
--- Stanley L. Falk, former
chief historian of the U.S. Air
Force and a military scholar
specializing in World War II
"A
must-read for those new to the
subject matter as well as old
hands."
--- Congressman Ike
Skelton, Chairman, House Armed
Services Committee
"Beautifully illustrated with
photos, maps, and sketches, this
book offers an accurate and
interesting account of June 6,
1944 landing at Normandy."
---
Neenah Ellis, Soundprint
public radio documentary series
program "D-Day Diaries"
"Profusely
illustrated with color and
black-and-white photographs and
illustrations, this book gathers
together numerous eyewitness
accounts of the preparations for
the invasion of France, the
invasion itself, and the
subsequent drive to liberate
Paris. Interviewees served in
the U.S., Canadian, and British
army, air force, and navy, with
selected oral interviews
included on the accompanying
CD. There are many helpful
sidebars to the text,
identifying the various pieces
of equipment used by the troops
and the divisions involved in
the campaign. Especially
interesting is a foldout map
detailing what is described as
"D-Days'
Lost Fleet," identifying the
types of ships damaged and sunk
on the beaches. Some German
reactions are also included, but
this is a story told largely
from the Allied perspective.
Recommended for all
collections."
--- David Lee Poremba,
Library Journal, 4/1/05
Chapter "Half a Million Purple
Hearts"
in
Hiroshima
In History
The
Myths of Revisionism
Edited with introduction by
Robert James Maddox
224 pages -
$34.95
"This invaluable work comprises
an introduction by the editor
followed by nine essays on the
highly contentious ending of the
Pacific war. The individual
essays assembled here display
enormous merit, but this work is
far more than the sum of its
parts: It marks a key milestone
in where the controversy has
been, and where it is going."
--- Richard B. Frank, The
Weekly Standard, 8/20/07
"Dresden, whose beauty Vonnegut
likened to Oz, became a
sacrificial myth in a litany of
Western crimes, unrelated to its
industrial and political
importance to the Nazis. In
arguing in 2003 that "people are
lying all the time as to what a
murderous nation we are",
Vonnegut cited Nagasaki as "the
most racist, nastiest act by
this country, after human
slavery". Yet, as an
outstanding new book,
Hiroshima in History,
demonstrates, contemporary
Japanese government records and
memoirs confirm that the
dropping of both A-bombs,
Nagasaki as well as Hiroshima,
was crucial to Japan’s decision
to surrender."
--- Oliver Kamm, The
Times (London), 4/14/07
"An authoritative new book,
Hiroshima in History: The Myths
of Revisionism, edited by
Robert James Maddox, shows that
there is not a single statement
in the documentary record made
by a U.S. diplomat to a Soviet
counterpart in 1945-6 to the
effect that ‘you'd better not
cross us, because we have the
bomb’."
--- The New Republic
Online, 7/10/07
"There’s a vast quarrelsome
literature about the bomb,
as you know, and the
revisionists are now being
revised --- see
Hiroshima in History: The
Myths of Revisionism,
edited by Robert James
Maddox, just published by
the University of Missouri
Press, for the latest
arguments."
--- Geoffrey C. Ward,
the writer of Ken Burns'
documentary
The
War in American
Heritage.com, 9/20/2007
"This slim volume of
collected essays should be
considered --- but on the
basis of this author's
experience, won't be by some
--- a definitive refutation
of some of the most firmly
held beliefs of historical
revisionists regarding the
United State's employment of
atomic bombs against Japan
in 1945. . . . Hiroshima in
History, edited by Maddox,
contains the views of
distinguished experts
previously published in a
variety of scholarly
journals."
--- Thomas A. Julian, The Journal of Military History, April
2008
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