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H. W. BRANDS is Distinguished Professor and Melbern G. Glasscock Chair of American History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of many books, among them THE FIRST AMERICAN: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and T.R.: THE LAST ROMANTIC, a critically acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Books by H.W. Brands

The General vs. the President

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of the struggle for power between President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur that brought America to crisis and the world to the brink of nuclear war.

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